The incumbent candidate in the race for a state Supreme Court seat said a political action committee’s advertisements on his behalf are a way to educate the public about the state’s judicial system.

Justice Paul Newby discussed the PAC support of his campaign before his appearance at the Pitt County Medical Society on Thursday. Newby discussed how the legal community communicates with the medical community and North Carolina’s role in the formation of the Constitution and Bill of Rights at the event.

Newby is being challenged this November by Sam Ervin IV, a state appellate court judge and grandson of the late U.S. senator and Watergate investigator, Sam Ervin Jr.

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