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GOP Plans For NC Supreme Court Are Scrambled

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November 7, 2018 12:48 a.m.

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.

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