Source: Anne Blythe, NEWS & OBSERVER, 6/1/18


North Carolina lawmakers have backed off a statewide plan to overhaul how judges get to the bench. But in a committee meeting Friday afternoon, House members pushed ahead with changes to judicial election districts in Wake and 11 other counties, acknowledging that they were proceeding piecemeal because the state Senate was not fully on board with a statewide overhaul.

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