WHAT HAPPENED: Though the legislature was out of session, controversy around the session continued as disputes over November ballot items entered courtrooms.
WHAT IT MEANS: Judges this week heard from lawyers in separate lawsuits, including
one from the governor, seeking to bar certain
constitutional amendment questions from the ballot on grounds that they're misleading or unconstitutional. Nothing is settled yet, even with Election Day on the horizon.
ON TAP: Elections officials
are waiting on a green light for ballot printing, currently on pause until the courts decide what to do. Separately, on Monday, a Wake County judge
issued an injunction stopping the printing of ballots in a case brought by a judicial candidate over a recently passed law that, in effect, removed his party affiliation from the ballot.
THE SKINNY: It's election season, folks.