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	"author_name": "Common Cause North Carolina",
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	"title": "North Carolina: Speak up for fair courts",
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	"description": "WHY THIS PETITION MATTERS It’s critically important that our state’s judiciary be fair and impartial. New reforms proposed by a group of lawmakers would help ensure that’s the case. A slate of positive reforms would require members of the NC Supreme Court to abide by high ethical standards so that we the people can trust in the fairness of our state’s highest court. The bills also give voters a chance to make clear in our constitution that opportunistic partisan power grabs have no place in North Carolina government. The important reforms in NC House Bills 1234, 1235, and 1236 would: clarify when a member of the NC Supreme Court must recuse themselves (decline to be part of ruling on a case) when it would create a conflict of interest require NC Supreme Court justices to make important financial disclosures when it comes to their service on the bench bar members of the NC Supreme Court from ruling on cases involving legislation they helped craft if they were once members of the state legislature improve fairness, impartiality, non-partisanship, and transparency by the commission that oversees implementation of the North Carolina Judicial Code of Conduct that ensures our courts are meeting high ethical standards distribute the General Assembly’s appointment powers over the Judicial Standards Commission to the Governor and to members of the North Carolina State Bar, the body that regulates professional conduct for attorneys in our state safeguard checks and balances in state government and improve transparency in the legislative process. We at Common Cause North Carolina applaud these common-sense reforms and we urge the state legislature to pass them. Add your voice: Sign our petition calling on the NC General Assembly to pass these important constitutional amendments on judicial ethics and separation of powers and place them on the ballot for North Carolina voters to consider in this fall’s election.",
	"url": "https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/north-carolina-speak-up-for-fair-courts"
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