Hundreds of law firms and former judges have signed onto friend-of-the-court briefs in support of Perkins Coie as the law firm challenges President Trump’s executive order targeting it.

The anti-federalists, who were critics of the proposed Constitution of 1787, saw danger in total judicial independence.

Judge Kristin Kelly Broyles (Democrat) has been serving Winston-Salem and Forsyth County for three years, since first taking the bench in 2022. She currently occupies Seat 9 of the North Carolina 31st ...