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The article reports on the move of the U.S. Supreme Court, rejecting to revive parts of a restrictive voting law in North Carolina that has been struck down by a federal appeals court as an unconstitutional effort against African Americans. Topics mentioned include various voting restrictions under the law, like new voter identification requirements, the fair and full access to the democratic process for voting, and the restoration of the three parts of the law.

The article reports on the move of the U.S. Supreme Court on January 18, 2018 to block temporarily the order of a trial court for lawmakers in North Carolina to revise congressional voting map.

The article reports that the U.S. Supreme Court has blocked a lower court's decision that ordered special elections in North Carolina on January 10, 2016 which would shorten the terms of several legislators.

The author reports that judges in several states have started to put up potentially insurmountable roadblocks to the use of lethal injections to execute condemned inmates. According to the author, their decisions are based on new evidence that suggests that prisoners have endured agonizing executions. A recent decision on the issue by a federal judge in North Carolina is reviewed. The article includes comments from Dr. Jonathan I. Groner, professor of surgery at Ohio State University.

The article reports on the move of the U.S. Supreme Court which issued a brief order that reinstated the provisions of a voting law in North Carolina that prohibits counting of votes in the wrong precinct and same-day registration.

STAPLES HUGHES, a North Carolina lawyer, was on the witness stand and about to disclose a secret he believed would free an innocent man from prison. But the judge told Mr. Hughes to stop. ''If you testify,'' Judge Jack A. Thompson said at a hearing last year on the prisoner's request for a new trial, ''I will be compelled to report you to the state bar. Do you understand that?'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]