North Carolina's new 'secret police force' is a 'recipe for government abuse': expert

[justaprogressive]

In North Carolina — a swing state that President Joe Biden narrowly lost to Donald Trump in 2020 — Republicans have voted to create a new investigative government body called the Joint Legislative Committee on Government Operations or "Gov Ops."

Democrats have been attacking it as a recipe for civil liberties abuses, and centrist Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper refused to sign it into law. But because Republicans in the North Carolina State Legislature have a veto-proof majority, Gov Ops is now the law.

Journalist Rotimi Adeoye is highly critical of Gov Ops in an op-ed published by the Daily Beast on October 10, laying out some reasons why it is problematic from a constitutional standpoint and Democrats are attacking it as a "secret police force."

[link:https://www.alternet.org/roy-cooper-2665868865/|