NC Legal Battles, Utility Dispute, and Tobacco Trade Tensions

A federal appeals court granting a stay to Riggs and Democrats in an election dispute, a judge allowing a COVID protester’s lawsuit to proceed while dropping some defendants, and House leaders pushing a predatory-debt bill in hopes of Senate approval. Additional coverage features Gov. Josh Stein seeking an injunction to block changes to the Utilities Commission and a discussion on the impact of the trade war on North Carolina’s tobacco industry, with insights from Mitch Kokai of the John Locke Foundation and Katherine Zehnder of the Carolina Journal.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.