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North Carolina Department of Justice

U.S. state government agency (led by a Democratic elected attorney general)

Owned byAgency of North Carolina state government, part of the executive branch. It is led by the Attorney General, a statewide elected official. Jeff Jackson, a Democrat, has held the office since January 1, 2025. It is not a privately owned news outlet.
FundingMainly North Carolina taxpayer money appropriated by the General Assembly. Its fiscal year 2025 budget was about $67 million, according to figures found in search. It also receives some federal grants and court-ordered settlement funds.
On the administrationbroadly critical

Background

The NC Department of Justice is headed by the Attorney General, an elected statewide office. Its divisions include the State Crime Laboratory and the Legal Services Division, which represents the state in court. Its website and press office publish news releases about consumer protection, law enforcement, and litigation. Josh Stein held the office before Jeff Jackson. Jackson, a Democrat and former state senator and congressman, took office on January 1, 2025. Since then the office has joined multistate lawsuits against the second Trump administration. In 2026 these suits included tariffs (filed in March and again in August), an executive order limiting mail-in voting (April), Medicaid work-requirement exemptions (June), and withheld FEMA and Homeland Security funds. Republican legislators have pushed back, and NC Newsline reported in January 2026 that some in the NC GOP threatened to leave him with a "feckless, empty shell" of a job. Its releases are official government communications. They present the office's legal actions in the attorney general's own framing and should be read as an advocacy position of an elected Democratic official, not as independent reporting.

Sources

  1. North Carolina AG suing Trump administration over healthcare changes
  2. NC Attorney General Jeff Jackson joins two dozen states in lawsuit over new Trump tariffs
  3. As Jeff Jackson battles Trump, NC GOP threatens to leave him with a 'feckless, empty shell' of a job
  4. The Attorney General at the North Carolina Department of Justice
  5. Attorney General of North Carolina - Ballotpedia
  6. NC Attorney General Jeff Jackson joins lawsuit against Trump order restricting mail-in voting

Profile compiled 2026-10-21; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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