Judge Robert Hobgood was a Democrat elected to the state legislature, and he stands in the way of every Republican education initiative, repeating and backing the teacher’s union at every opportunity.
However, this will likely soon change:
http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/08/16/4074408/three-judge-panel-system-could.html
“(The NC state legislature) passed another law, this one making those kinds of lawsuits less likely to succeed when filed in state court. Beginning in September, all constitutional challenges to laws will be heard by three-judge trial court panels appointed by the chief justice of the state Supreme Court. The move takes those cases out of the hands of individual Superior Court judges...”
To a great extent, judge Hobgood’s persistent leftism caused this law to be written.
Not to be pedantic, but what is there to stop Hobgood or some other liberal from declaring THAT law unconstitutional?