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Billy Corriher

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Billy Corriher is the state courts manager for the People's Parity Project, which works to build a justice system that values people over profits, and a writer whose work focuses on democracy and the courts. He has written about these issues for ThinkProgress, The Hill, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, FacingSouth.org, Newsweek and the Raleigh News & Observer. From 2012 to 2017, he worked on issues around judges and judicial nominations at the Center for American Progress. He is the author of Usurpers: How Voters Stopped the GOP Takeover of North Carolina’s Courts,” published in 2021.

Corriher earned his bachelor's degree in political science with a minor in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his law degree from Georgia State University in Atlanta.

In recent years, Republican-led legislatures have been adding state supreme court seats and working to change nominating rules, aiming to bolster conservative majorities.