[EL] North Caroline judicial candidates -- party labels

[John Tanner]

This  prompted me to check the list of NC Supreme Court Justices.  I don’t know that Michael Morgan is an especially white-sounding name — or much different in terms of racial signals than that of his opponent, then-Justice Thomas Edmunds.  (I do recall a Harris County TX election in which all of the Democratic judicial candidates won except for one white candidate whose free-spirited parents had christened her with an African-sounding first name.)

Per press account photos and his TV ads, Justice Morgan doesn’t appears to be black, but then I suppose few voters saw any of that.   It would be interesting to see if county or precinct level election returns showed some sort of pattern. 

I was surprised that Morgan was willing to admit openly that he went to Duke undergrad.  

> On Mar 24, 2017, at 1:04 PM, Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu> wrote:
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> No proof. These are thoughts some have shared with me. 
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> Rick Hasen
> Sent from my iPhone. Please excuse typos.
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> From: jboppjr at aol.com <mailto:jboppjr at aol.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 11:51 AM
> Subject: Re: North Caroline judicial candidates -- party labels
> To: Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu <mailto:rhasen at law.uci.edu>>, <law-election at uci.edu <mailto:law-election at uci.edu>>
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> Rick, what is your proof for this scurrilous charge.  Jim
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> In a message dated 3/24/2017 11:04:37 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, rhasen at law.uci.edu <mailto:rhasen at law.uci.edu> writes:
> My comment. 
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> Rick Hasen
> Sent from my iPhone. Please excuse typos.
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> From:JBoppjr at aol.com <mailto:JBoppjr at aol.com> <JBoppjr at aol.com <mailto:JBoppjr at aol.com>>
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 9:42:27 AM
> To: Rick Hasen; law-election at uci.edu <mailto:law-election at uci.edu>
> Subject: North Caroline judicial candidates -- party labels
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> Is this a statement from the BNA article or is a comment by Prof Hasen?
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> As I understand it, the impetus for this bill was the election of a Democratic state Supreme Court Justice with a “white” sounding name and no party label.
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> Jim Bopp
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> In a message dated 3/23/2017 10:24:13 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, rhasen at law.uci.edu <mailto:rhasen at law.uci.edu> writes:
> “Party Labels Back for North Carolina Judges” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91776>
> Posted on March 23, 2017 6:31 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91776> by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
> Bloomberg BNA: <http://news.bna.com/mpdm/MPDMWB/split_display.adp?fedfid=107884942&vname=mpebulallissues&jd=a0m1b5h4x8&split=0>
> Starting next year, ballots listing candidates for North Carolina’s superior and district courts will once again include their party affiliations.
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> Both the state House and Senate garnered enough votes to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s (D) March 16 veto of H.B. 100 <http://src.bna.com/m3W>. Both votes were largely along party lines, with Republicans generally supporting the override and Democrats voting against it.
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> As I understand it, the impetus for this bill was the election of a Democratic state Supreme Court Justice with a “white” sounding name and no party label.
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