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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 07:39 PM Apr 2017

Panel Of NC Judges Backs Cooper Over Election Changes

Source: AP

RALEIGH - North Carolina judges on Friday put a temporary brake on renewed efforts by Republican state lawmakers to curtail the new Democratic governor’s control over state and local elections.

A panel of state trial court judges voted 2-1 to stop a new law from taking effect Monday until a more extensive hearing on May 10. The panel’s majority said Gov. Roy Cooper was likely to succeed in challenging a law GOP legislators passed this week diluting the ability governors have had for more than a century to pick election board majorities.

State Senate leader Phil Berger blasted the temporary restraining order, saying legislators had responded to the panel’s rejection of an earlier version by tailoring the revamped effort “exactly as they required.”

The temporary freeze “is little different than the legislating from the bench they specifically promised they would not do,” Berger said in a prepared statement. “They have taken the first, disturbing step toward giving Roy Cooper total control of the board responsible for regulating his own ethics and campaign finance conduct, and we will continue to defend the law evenly dividing elections and ethics enforcement between both political parties.”

Read more: http://www.wfmynews2.com/news/politics/panel-of-nc-judges-backs-cooper-over-election-changes/435374124

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Panel Of NC Judges Backs Cooper Over Election Changes (Original Post) n2doc Apr 2017 OP
Berger is not only a liar paleotn Apr 2017 #1
Berger is pure evil unc70 Apr 2017 #4
Rethugs only win by cheating kimbutgar Apr 2017 #2
+++ agree - Cheating and Lying. iluvtennis Apr 2017 #3
Whistleass roscoeroscoe May 2017 #5
STFU Berger Meister Shyster Berger. K&R, nt. appal_jack May 2017 #6
I love how ironic it is that Berger complains about the judicary trying to usurp the power... Jno_Gilmor_ May 2017 #7

paleotn

(17,778 posts)
1. Berger is not only a liar
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 08:07 PM
Apr 2017

he's a damn liar and a scoundrel. What is it the thugs keep telling us?....elections have consequences. They certainly do.

unc70

(6,094 posts)
4. Berger is pure evil
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 11:28 PM
Apr 2017

Do says those I know who have had dealings with him in State government. In a far worse category than your typical Repug.

Jno_Gilmor_

(127 posts)
7. I love how ironic it is that Berger complains about the judicary trying to usurp the power...
Tue May 2, 2017, 05:35 AM
May 2017

of the legislature when the judiciary is simply trying to stop the legislature from usurping the power of the executive. The Republicans in my State know NC is destined to turn blue and are willing to throw ever principal out the window to hold it off for a few more years. It didn't work for scumbag McCrory, it won't work for them.

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