Lawmaker emails are typically deleted after three years in North Carolina, due to a policy shift last year. Now lawyers say they want old emails for a lawsuit and can’t get them.
Up until last week a high-profile lawsuit questioning the legitimacy of a pair of state constitutional amendments had been stuck in procedural limbo for months, fueling new concerns of political gamesmanship in the state’s judicial system.
The case has also been hampered by an email retention policy that changed last year, which ultimately may mean that records lawyers for the state NAACP hoped to review in the case no…
