Deceitful ALEC/Art Pope puppet files last minute to primary Dem NC Supreme Court justice

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<<<<One of only two Democrats on the seven-member court, Hudson assumed she would be facing a general challenge in the fall from Mecklenburg County Superior Court Judge Eric Levinson, a Republican. But near the end of the filing period, a second opponent emerged, Jeanette Doran.

Doran is a former general counsel and executive director at the N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law, a group backed by Art Pope, the state budget director and a leading funder of conservative groups and candidates. Doran was appointed to chair the board of review at the stat Division of Employment Security where she handles appeals of unemployment compensation claims.

Doran’s entry recasts the election and complicates Hudson’s efforts to hold her seat. With three candidates in the race, the law requires that the field be reduced to two through the state’s primary election in May. That primary will feature a high profile and highly contested race for the Republican Party’s U.S. Senate nomination. Hudson, despite eight years on the state’s highest court, is little known statewide and could be swept out in a primary election dominated by Republican voters.

The suddenly altered political situation in an ostensibly nonpartisan race raises a question of whether someone is playing hardball politics to unseat an experienced, highly qualified and widely respected Supreme Court justice. Hudson says she doesn’t know whether Doran’s entry is a political gambit, but she says, “If someone is behind the scenes playing games, it’s not good for the court. It’s much too serious.”

Doran says she made the decision to enter the race for a Supreme Court seat on her own. With Republican-backed laws facing several constitutional challenges, Doran said the court needs the expertise she developed during eight years at the N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law.
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Doran’s candidacy then serves two potential ends. She could knock out one of the last Democrats on the high court and she cold ultimately bolster the defense of hotly disputed laws passed by the Republican-led General Assembly and signed by Republican Gov. Pat McCrory.
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