NC Legislature | House Helene relief bill would weaken Governor and AG powers

[Mulberry Heel]

What do you think they are trying to do?

I know what they're trying to do, what I'm saying (somewhat sarcastically) is they just need to go ahead and make it official and do away with the entire executive branch and have the legislature just assume both roles.

 

[HeelInTheOzarks]

I would love to see someone, anyone defending this kind of thing by the GOP…crickets

 

[finesse]

They want to. All the defense they need to salve their conscience.

 

[mpaer]

Question about Local law enforcement Cooperating with ICE?
If some young man gets arrested for whatever. What does Local LE do to "check for citizenship" If he has a residence-and say a drivers licenses-thats all they do right- ?
Now is "the problem" that local LE has a "list" provided by ICE and they don't check it?
In most cases what is the "issue" .
I don't have a piece of paper that says I am a citizen if I am arrested??

 

[altmin]

Rachel Maddow covered the GOP power grab this week

 

[altmin]

Congrats North Carolinians, you are now 50% of the way to living in a banana republic.

Amid protests, Senate overrides Cooper's veto of bill stripping power from governor, other Democratic officials

The override effort must still pass the House for the changes to become law. That vote could be tougher; three House Republicans joined all Democrats in voting against the bill.

www.wral.com

 

[CarolinaFever]

There is no way this can be constitutional. You can't just take power away from elected officials just because they don't like the election results. If a Pub is elected governor the Pubs would try to go back and change it all. They have no shame anymore.

 

[Mulberry Heel]

There is no way this can be constitutional. You can't just take power away from elected officials just because they don't like the election results. If a Pub is elected governor the Pubs would try to go back and change it all. They have no shame anymore.

Pretty much. And there are rumors floating around that the NC GOP legislature wants to void the State Supreme Court election where they appear to have lost by a few hundred votes and call for a new election. And they'll do it on the grounds of "vote fraud" having affected the result. I'm not sure I believe the rumors, as I'm not sure they have the balls to do it, but then again if they do who's going to stop them? Our (for the moment) 5-2 GOP majority State Supreme Court? Our State Attorney General or Governor's office whose powers are being neutered? If this GOP legislature was honest (hint: they're not) they would just go ahead and abolish the executive branch in the state constitution and absorb that branch into the legislature. As long as NC voters persist in electing Democratic governors and state attorney generals, that seems to be where we're heading anyway. We're definitely in Banana Republic territory for sure.

 

[nycfan]