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Friday, March 14

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Appeals court panel to hear North Carolina Supreme Court challenge

* It’s been more than four months since voters cast their ballots in the highly contentious North Carolina state Supreme Court race. The election has yet to be certified, because Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin is suing to overturn the results, insisting that more than 60,000 votes be thrown out as illegitimate.
* In the latest update ([link removed]) , a 2-1 GOP-majority panel in the North Carolina Court of Appeals will hear Griffin’s case March 21. This comes almost a month after the North Carolina Supreme Court — the very court Griffin is seeking a seat on — denied his petition to bypass the appeals court and have the state’s highest court rule on the matter.

Trump resisting order to reinstate thousands of fired federal workers

* Yesterday federal judges in California and Maryland ordered the Trump administration to immediately offer ([link removed]) reinstatement to thousands of probationary federal workers who were recently unlawfully fired.
* The Trump administration appealed both orders, and today White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called federal judges' rulings that blocked the firing of the workers “entirely unconstitutional,” adding ”the President has the authority to hire and fire [federal workers].”

Judge rejects Baltimore’s bid for relief in CFPB defunding lawsuit

* A federal judge denied ([link removed]) Baltimore's request to block the Trump administration from defunding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, ruling that the city failed to prove a final decision had been made to cut funding.

If the marshals go rogue, courts have other ways to enforce their orders

* If the executive branch refuses to obey court orders, federal judges have a few ways to ensure compliance — and must exercise these options, Democracy Docket guest author and Rutgers Law Professor David Noll writes ([link removed]) .

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