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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 01:27 PM Feb 2017

Judges halt hearings for North Carolina governor's cabinet members

Source: Reuters


By Colleen Jenkins | WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.

A three-judge panel in North Carolina has temporarily blocked lawmakers from holding confirmation hearings for nominees to Democratic Governor Roy Cooper's cabinet, a ruling Republican leaders slammed as a "blatant overstep" of authority. The judges said in their order Tuesday evening that Cooper was likely to succeed in his challenge of a measure legislators passed in December requiring state Senate confirmation of cabinet appointments.

The requirement was among a series of measures approved by the Republican-dominated legislature curtailing Cooper's executive authority after he defeated incumbent Republican Governor Pat McCrory last fall.

Republican leaders have said the changes were lawful and would serve as a check on executive power. Cooper said requiring Senate consent to his cabinet secretaries was unprecedented and unconstitutional.

The temporary restraining order halted a hearing set for Wednesday to review Cooper's appointee for secretary of the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.



Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-north-carolina-politics-idUSKBN15N25I

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Judges halt hearings for North Carolina governor's cabinet members (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2017 OP
Awwwww Friend or Foe Feb 2017 #1
Time to start branding these people as traitors. Initech Feb 2017 #2
This guy Cooper is all right in my book bucolic_frolic Feb 2017 #3
We used to think this was just something that happened in Banana Republics in South America . geretogo Feb 2017 #4
The Republican Party is working as hard as it can to make us a one-party system. Stonepounder Feb 2017 #5
Just like the South was for most of its history fountainofyouth Feb 2017 #6
The Devil and Daniel Webster GeoWilliam750 Feb 2017 #7

bucolic_frolic

(42,651 posts)
3. This guy Cooper is all right in my book
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 01:32 PM
Feb 2017

He is in a kettle of fish, and he is fighting hard and standing for common sense

THIS is what we need!!!

geretogo

(1,281 posts)
4. We used to think this was just something that happened in Banana Republics in South America .
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 01:35 PM
Feb 2017

Totalitarian rule arrives in America . America ; the " EXCEPTIONAL " Banana Republic .

Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
5. The Republican Party is working as hard as it can to make us a one-party system.
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 01:35 PM
Feb 2017

Just like the Communist Party in Russia. We have the President tweeting about 'so-called' judges, we have the Congress silencing a sitting (Dem) Senator. We have the North Carolina legislature talking about a 'blatant overstep' by the Judiciary stepping in after they were unhappy about losing the governorship to a Dem and passed legislation stripping the new Gov of his ability to hire the people he wanted, while the US Congress blithely approves Cabinet nominees who are either completely unqualified for the job, or whose whole philosophy is antithetical to the goals of the Dept they are supposed to run.

God help the person who goes to Daniel Webster's grave:

Yes, Dan'l Webster's dead ----- or, at least, they buried him. But every time there's a thunderstorm around Marshfield, they say you can hear his rolling voice in the hollows of the sky. And they say that if you go to his grave and speak loud and clear, "Dan'l Webster ----- Dan'l Webster!" the ground'll begin to shiver and the trees begin to shake. And after a while you'll hear a deep voice saying, "Neighbor, how stands the Union?" Then you better answer the Union stands as she stood, rock-bottomed and copper-sheathed, one and indivisible, or he's liable to rear right out of the ground. At least, that's what I was told when I was a youngster.

by steven vincent benet


Where is Daniel when we need him?

GeoWilliam750

(2,519 posts)
7. The Devil and Daniel Webster
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 05:04 PM
Feb 2017

Maybe it is time to pay our respects: we could use a little help from such a fine orator.

Also, am I correct in thinking that although Trump campaigned in Vermont and Massachusetts, he was never seen in New Hampshire?

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