North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson stands and claps during Gov. Josh Stein’s State of the State address in the House chamber on March 12, 2025. (Photo: Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline)
As North Carolina’s top lawyer, Attorney General Jeff Jackson has many important jobs — handling important criminal prosecutions, protecting consumers, representing state agencies in litigation. But if there’s a duty that is clearly his Number One priority, it has to be defending North Carolinians from unlawful attacks on their rights and well-being.
And it’s in light of this obvious fact that Jackson should be commended for his recent action challenging the Trump administration’s unlawful scheme to cancel billions of dollars in Health and Human Services grants already allocated by Congress…