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North Carolina Governor Signs Law Limiting Successor’s Power
RALEIGH, N.C. — Amid a tense and dramatic backdrop of outrage and frustration, the Republican-controlled state legislature on Friday approved a sweeping package of restrictions on the power of the governor’s office in advance of the swearing in of the Democratic governor-elect, Roy Cooper.
Protesters spent a second day chanting and disrupting debate. Some were arrested and led away from the state legislative building in plastic wrist restraints.
The legislature approved two major bills, one of which was quickly signed by the departing one-term governor, Pat McCrory, a Republican. That legislation changes the makeup of the State Board of Elections, stripping the governor of his power to appoint a majority.
A second bill, which Mr. McCrory had not signed as of Friday afternoon, strips the governor of the ability to name members of the boards of state universities and, perhaps most significantly, makes the governor’s cabinet appointees subject to approval by the State Senate.
Democratic legislators repeatedly referred to the measures as an unparalleled reorganization of the balance of power between the legislative and executive branches that was orchestrated by a Republican Party upset that its candidate lost the governorship in a close vote.