PPP in the News: North Carolina GOP Drops Crusade Against Jurist Who Questioned Racial Bias, for Now

PPP’s own Billy Corriher writes for Slate that, “Justice Anita Earls, a Democrat and former civil rights lawyer, is no longer at risk of losing her seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court for speaking out about bias and discrimination at the highest level of the state judiciary.”

“Republican lawmakers and judges have made big changes to North Carolina’s Judicial Standards Commission, raising serious questions about whether Republican judges are now being held to a different standard than Democrats. To outside observers, it appears that Republicans have created a judicial ethics enforcement system that targets Democrats and lets Republicans get away with anything.”

Read more at Slate.