{"id":161616,"date":"2026-04-16T23:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=161616"},"modified":"2026-04-16T23:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:45:12","slug":"nc-republicans-are-trying-to-give-politicians-control-over-lawyers-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=161616","title":{"rendered":"NC Republicans Are Trying to Give Politicians Control Over Lawyers&#8217; Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Slate | April 10, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the past several years, Republicans in North Carolina have attempted \u2014 with varying degrees of success \u2014 power grab after power grab over the state&#8217;s government and legal systems. Now they&#8217;re trying one of their most audacious endeavors yet \u2014 an effort to give politicians control of the body that regulates lawyers&#8217; compliance with ethics rules, a move that would provide them the power to sanction or disbar attorneys they don&#8217;t like.<\/p>\n<p>If this proposal becomes law, the same Republicans who have targeted Democratic justices with bogus ethics charges will control the committee that decides when lawyers violate ethics rules. The state&#8217;s politicians would exercise unprecedented command over the legal profession, a vast departure from past practice.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans on the committee have hurled accusations of &#8216;cancel culture&#8217; at the state bar committee that investigates lawyers, but they have steadfastly refused to provide any examples.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2026\/04\/north-carolina-republicans-state-supreme-court-fail.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more at Slate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate | April 10, 2026 &#8220;In the past several years, Republicans in North Carolina have attempted \u2014 with varying degrees of success \u2014 power grab after power grab over the state&#8217;s government and legal systems. Now they&#8217;re trying one of their most audacious endeavors yet \u2014 an effort to give politicians control of the body&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161622,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161616\/revisions\/161622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}