On Friday, the Republican majority of the North Carolina Supreme Court decided to wade once again into a 29-year legal battle over state education funding known as Leandro.

The court granted a request from Republican leaders Phil Berger Sr. and Tim Moore for discretionary review of a ruling the court made in November 2022, when Democrats held the majority.  […]

Michael Hewlett is a courts and law reporter for The Assembly. He was previously a legal affairs reporter at the Winston-Salem Journal and has won two Henry Lee Weathers Freedom of Information Awards.

Jeffrey Billman is a politics and law reporter for The Assembly. The former editor-in-chief of INDY in Durham, he holds a master's degree in public policy analysis from the University of Central Florida.