One of the articles in TPM’s voting rights series focused on North Carolina, where a longtime legal antagonist of the state GOP was running for a state Supreme Court seat. Anita Earls, who, as a lawyer, campaigned against Republican efforts to restrict the vote, won that seat tonight, Tierney Sneed reports.
If she hadn’t, there were murmurs that the GOP was planning to pack the Democratic-leaning court until it had a majority, Barry Yeoman reported for us.