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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro presents President Donald Trump with a Brazilian national team soccer jersey in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, March 19, 2019. Read more about Bolsonaro’s visit on A8.
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NEWS BRIEFING
Corporal punishment in schools would be banned with bill Spanking and other forms of corporal punishment would be barred in N.C. public schools by a bill which passed a House education committee on Tuesday. For nearly 30 years, the General Assembly has given local school boards — currently at 115 — the option to decide whether to allow principals or teachers to use physical punishment upon students.
Online free speech rights trump stalking conviction A North Carolina man imprisoned for stalking had his conviction overturned Tuesday when a state appeals court ruled the social media posts that prompted the charges were protected by free speech rights. A three-judge panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals vacated the convictions of 46-year-old Brady Lorenzo Shackelford, who had been sentenced to more than two years for stalking a woman he met at church in 2015.
Troops celebrate as U.S.-backed force seizes IS camp in Syria U.S.-backed Syrian forces on Tuesday seized control of an encampment held by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria, after hundreds of militants surrendered overnight, a spokesman said, signaling the group’s collapse after months of stiff resistance. A group of suspects involved in a January bombing that killed four Americans in northern Syria were among militants captured by the Kurdish-led forces. The taking of the IS camp was a major advance but not the final defeat of the group in Baghouz, the last village held by the extremists where they have been holding out for weeks under siege, according to Mustafa Bali, the spokesman for the Kurdishled force known as the Syrian Democratic Forces.
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Bill seeks halt to ‘sanctuary sheriffs’ in North Carolina
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The bill would require law enforcement to participate in ICE’s 287(g) program
STATE ELEVATE THE CONVERSATION
Some student ID cards don’t fit with voter ID requirements By A.P. Dillon For the North State Journal RALEIGH — Colleges, universities and various state institutions recently submitted applications to the NC State Board of Elections to have their student and employee IDs approved for use in voting. Of the 81 colleges and universities which submitted an application, 72 had their IDs approved. “I applaud all 17 UNC system universities for their on-time certifications to permit students to use their school IDs when voting,” said Senator Warren Daniel (R-Burke), one of the sponsors of the voter ID legislation, in a statement. “The State Board of Elections, which is controlled by Governor Cooper, has the final say in approving those certifications, but it appears to me that they all meet the requirements passed by the legislature.” Voters, student or otherwise, will not have to show ID to vote quite yet. On March 11, lawmakers fast-tracked Senate Bill 214, which pushes the implementation of voter ID back until 2020. Governor Cooper signed the bill into law on March 14. Only a fraction of the number of schools actually submitted an application. Of the 81 that did submit an application, the 13 listed below failed to meet the legal requirements. East Carolina University, Fayetteville State University, NC A&T University, N.C. School of Science and Math, UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC Charlotte, UNC
Greensboro, UNC Healthcare, UNC Pembroke, UNC School of the Arts, UNC Wilmington, Winston Salem University and Western Carolina University. NCSBE executive director Kim Strach sent a letter explaining some of the rejections to the co-chairs of the Joint Legislative Elections Oversight Committee, Redistricting and Elections Committee and the Elections and Ethics Law Committee. “I wanted to bring the reasons for the disapprovals to your attention in hopes that there can be a legislative remedy so that more identification cards can be approved in advance of the 2020 elections when photo identification will be required to vote,” Strach wrote. Strach said in the letter that of the “850 universities, colleges, state and local employers, including charter schools, and tribal entities that were eligible to have their identification cards approved, 81 institutions submitted requests to the State Board of Elections.” Strach said that some institutions believed they could not meet the current statutory requirements and others asked for additional time to submit their request. Entities who applied but were rejected failed one or both of two sections of the law. One section says that the ID cards must “contain photographs of students taken by the university or college or its agents or contractors.” See STUDENT ID, page A2
By David Larson North State Journal RALEIGH — Republicans in the North Carolina House filed a bill last week that would require sheriffs in the state to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (known as ICE) when they request immigrants charged with crimes be held and transferred into their custody. With many Democrats at the national level backing an “abolish ICE” movement, some North Car-
olina sheriffs in urban counties ran on the issue. “Several sheriffs in North Carolina aren’t communicating with their fellow law enforcement officers about the detention of illegal immigrants accused of crimes,” Rep. Destin Hall (R-Caldwell), the lead primary sponsor of H.B. 370, said in a press release. “These sheriffs are putting politics ahead of public safety.” The issue was brought to the public’s attention as opposition to 287(g) agreements with ICE has grown among Democrats. Section 287(g) of the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act allows state and local law enforcement to be See SANCTUARY, page A2
White House aide says ‘absurd’ to link mosque shooter, Trump By Darlene Superville The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — A top White House official said Sunday that President Donald Trump “is not a white supremacist” and attempts to tie him to the alleged New Zealand mosque shooter are “absurd.” Mick Mulvaney, the acting chief of staff, described the New Zealand shooter as a “disturbed individual” and “evil person” and said it was unfair to cast the 28-yearold Australian “as a supporter of Donald Trump any more than it is to look at his, sort of his eco-terrorist passages in that manifesto and align him with Nancy Pelosi or Ms. Ocasio-Cortez.” Pelosi, a California Democrat, is the House speaker. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is a freshman and major proponent of a plan, named the Green New Deal, for tackling climate change. “This was a disturbed individual, an evil person, and to try and tie him to an American politician from either party probably ignores some of the deeper difficulties that See SHOOTING, page A2