Originally published at: North Carolina Senate Republicans Override Dem Gov’s Veto Of Their Power Grab - TPM – Talking Points Memo
North Carolina Senate Republicans on Monday voted to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s recent veto of a Republican-passed bill designed to strip away power from the newly-elected Democratic governor and attorney general. The override vote passed 30-19. Republican lawmakers have been trying to fast track SB 382 while they still hold a veto-proof supermajority until the end of…
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It should come as no surprise that the anti-democratic racist takeover of the 1898 Wilmington Coup ( Wilmington massacre - Wikipedia ) took place in NC and started organized/legislated Jim Crow Fascism off to the races for nearly 70 years. How is this anti-democratic legislature any different, except for the wanton killing and blaming it all on backs?
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I suspect that the refrain of the next four years sees its precedent here:
“Yeah, we did that. What do you think you’re gonna do about it, lib?”
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CHEAT CHEAT thats all, they know
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Sore losers and sore winners
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Surely* this has to come back to haunt them.
*Too optimistic?
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disaster relief
“See if you can find any in it.”
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The disaster is the NC election results. This is their relief from that.
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The only hope is the NC Supreme Court. In 2017, the Repubs also enacted laws limiting incoming Governor Cooper’s powers with respect to elections and other matters. The Court rejected that effort. Supreme Court blocks law stripping governor of election powers They’ll likely be asked to do that again.
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We seem to be in a game in which no matter how many points we score, no matter what happens, they step in and change the rules, or the officials make up new ones for them. This is the stuff that makes rational people turn to guerilla warfare and terrorism.
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The Civil War never really ended.
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The dems have finally figured out that no one gives a fuck about norms but them.
Good for Biden pardoning Hunter.
But Cooper needs to stare these motherfuckers down by simply ignoring this fascist bullshit. What are the consequences anyway? Anarchy? We passed that station ages ago. Just dare the Republicans to enforce this shit. Don’t enforce it for them by complying, FFS.
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Reminds me of something I read over the weekend pointing out the reason behind unions - and the right to form them - was to prevent incidents such as irate workers storming a plant owners home, dragging the owner out, and then killing them on the front lawn. The writer suggested perhaps corporate owners today might want to take heed of those lessons from history.
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Republicans are scum. It was ever thus.
Agree with this. Cooper and his successor need to announce their intent to use the Unitary Executive Principle to ignore as unenforceable, statutes that violate the state’s Constitution and the Governor’s prerogatives. As a famous founding father said, let the legislature try to enforce their new law. They can’t.
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Exactly. And I pray that Biden’s pardon of Hunter shows Democrats that the norms they’re clinging to are nothing but a rope around their necks. Obama never learned that lesson. I’m not sure he gets it still.
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Republicans are not into power sharing. There is a name for that, let-me-see, what is that again…/s
Apparently, the lessons taught by Wisconsin’s legislature when Evers was elected (and not yet inaugurated) have not been learned by North Carolina.
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Glad to hear the N.C. Supreme Court reversed the legislature’s power grab last time around. The legislature has a profound aversion to and disrespect for the will of the voters. Vote for a Democratic governor; the leg’ll take away your power and your choice. Apparently gerrymandering has cemented their hold on the levers of government. Why doesn’t the court address that?