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Most NC GOP House members join lawsuit commit sedition to change 2020 presidential election results
Brian Gordon and Gareth McGrath USA TODAY Network 12/12/20
Seven of North Carolina’s nine Republican U.S. House members have signed on to a Texas lawsuit that seeks to overturn the results of last month’s presidential election.
On Friday evening, the Supreme Court rejected the lawsuit.
The seven GOP House members — Reps. Mark Walker, Ted Budd, Dan Bishop, Virginia Foxx, Richard Hudson, David Rouzer, and Greg Murphy — joined more than 100 of their Republican colleagues in a brief in support of the push to throw out votes from four key swing states that went for President-elect Joe Biden. Those are Wisconsin, Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
"Among our most fundamental institutions is the system of free and fair elections that we rely upon, and any erosion in that foundation jeopardizes the stability of our republic," the brief says
Council votes 6-1 to proceed with Vance removal
A city landmark. A place to celebrate and protest. A symbol of trauma and abuse.
Asheville’s Vance Monument is seen as many different things to many different people — but soon, it won’t be seen at all. On Dec. 8, Asheville City Council voted 6-1 to move forward with the removal of the downtown obelisk, which memorializes Confederate Gov. Zebulon Vance.
Since August, the volunteer Vance Monument Task Force have met weekly to determine the monument’s fate, explained Oralene Simmons, task force co-chair. The team, jointly appointed by the city and Buncombe County, held engagement sessions with community members most impacted by the marker’s presence and read through over 1,000 emails, texts and voicemail messages as they considered three different options for the controversial monument: removal, relocation or repurposing.
After 12 weeks of deliberations, the task force voted 11-1 on Nov. 19 to recommend the monument’s removal. On Dec. 7, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to accept that recommendation.
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