Court Blocks Most of North Carolina GOP’s Legislative Coup, Including Election-Board

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slate..._in_court.html

On Friday, a North Carolina state court ruled that most of the Republican-dominated Legislature’s December power grab—which stripped authority from the incoming Democratic governor—violated the state constitution. The three-judge panel found that the Legislature’s attempt to deny Gov. Roy Cooper control over the state election board violated the constitutional separation of powers, as did efforts to stack his administration with holdovers appointed by former Republican Gov. Pat McCrory. Presuming Republicans appeal, they face long odds at the liberal-leaning state Supreme Court, which previously blocked the election-board takeover.

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Actually, it was a partial victory for the GOP. Keep reading your own article:

Finally, by another 2–1 vote, the court upheld a new law requiring the governor to submit his Cabinet appointments to a state Senate vote. Before Cooper took office, governors appointed Cabinet secretaries without legislative interference, but Republicans abolished that practice in December, granting themselves the opportunity to provide “advice and consent.” The court had previously issued a temporary injunction halting this law on the theory that, because Cabinet secretaries oversee executive agencies, the Legislature’s attempt to exert control over the secretary selection process infringed on the governor’s “executive power.”

But on Friday, the court concluded that the state Senate is constitutionally empowered to provide its “advice and consent” in Cabinet appointments. It seemed encouraged by the fact that the Senate has already approved three of Cooper’s appointments and set hearings for others. Cooper, the majority noted, “has made no evidentiary showing that the Advice and Consent provision will result in a violation” of separation of powers. Put differently, the new law might pose a constitutional threat if the legislature used it to blockade Cooper’s appointments—but right now, it appears to be functioning benignly.

Cooper’s office has suggested he will appeal the decision regarding Cabinet appointments.

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Actually, it was a partial victory for the GOP. Keep reading your own article:

I did read it. I don't appreciate the ad hom in the slightest as the title clearly says, "most."

Have a nice day.

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I did read it. I don't appreciate the ad hom in the slightest as the title clearly says, "most."

Have a nice day.

karma

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This is a perfect example of why courts exist. Laws are words. Craftily stated words make good laws but when they don't, you take them to court.

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I did read it. I don't appreciate the ad hom in the slightest as the title clearly says, "most."

Have a nice day.

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karma

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This is a perfect example of why courts exist. Laws are words. Craftily stated words make good laws but when they don't, you take them to court.

Exactly.

[FindersKeepers]

I did read it. I don't appreciate the ad hom in the slightest as the title clearly says, "most."

Have a nice day.

Do us all a favor and look up what "ad hominem" means. In no way did I attack either you nor your article. Rather I countered your extraneous narrative in the OP, by pointing out that the GOP won a partial victory. Your narrative was misleading and dishonest.

In agreement with my analysis, please see the piece USNews ran:

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina judges issued partial victories Friday to both Republican legislators and new Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper over laws designed to undercut his powers.

The judicial panel threw out laws approved two weeks before Cooper took office that limit his authority in carrying out elections and that give civil service job protections to hundreds of former Republican Gov. Pat McCrory's political appointees.
But a majority of the three judges also upheld the new law subjecting Cooper's Cabinet secretaries to formal confirmation by a majority of the state Senate. The judges already had declined earlier to halt confirmation activity by Senate Republicans, and three department heads have been approved unanimously since last week.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-sta...constitutional

Try harder in the future to ascertain the meaning of a term before you use it. It will save us all a lot of time.

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