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 governors 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 panels 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 panels 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.
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paleotn
(17,778 posts)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)Do says those I know who have had dealings with him in State government. In a far worse category than your typical Repug.
kimbutgar
(20,872 posts)iluvtennis
(19,756 posts)roscoeroscoe
(1,369 posts)Needs a pie in the face
appal_jack
(3,813 posts)Jno_Gilmor_
(127 posts)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.