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North Carolina’s legislature has a devious plan to overturn the will of the voters; Slime Republicans in the legislature plan to maintain the conservative majority on the court, ignoring voters altogether.
Topic Started: Nov 15 2016, 05:37 PM (143 Views)
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Even as Donald Trump won the state, North Carolina voters chose last week to elect a new liberal majority to the state supreme court. The new North Carolina Supreme Court would provide a check on the power of the GOP’s veto-proof super-majority in the state legislature. But the legislature has come up with a scheme that would add two seats to the court and allow Gov. Pat McCrory (R) to appoint two justices — maintaining the conservative majority.

Gov. McCrory himself is likely on his way out, having received several thousand fewer votes than challenger Roy Cooper, but he has not yet conceded and is waiting for the results of a recount. The court-packing bill could thus allow the lame duck governor to decide the future of the state supreme court for years to come.

This would not be the North Carolina legislature’s first attempt to disregard the voters and guarantee a conservative majority on the state supreme court. A 2015 bill would have kept the winning liberal candidate, Judge Mike Morgan, from even running in last week’s election. It would have changed North Carolina Supreme Court elections from contested races to retention elections, in which the public votes “yes” or “no” on whether to keep the justices on the bench.

Even if the voters had rejected the conservative incumbent, the bill would have allowed McCrory to appoint his successor to serve for two years. The law was struck down as violating the state constitution.

https://thinkprogress.org/north-carolina-supreme-court-33e0873acb30#.y60boox31
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Sounds like Dems passing Obamacare....

Or the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937..... :popcorn:
Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence.
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Movement Conservatives are quietly rejoicing over victories in state legislatures which have brought them to within two or three states of having the necessary two-thirds majority to be able to invoke a Constitutional Convention and approaching the three-fourths majority necessary for ratification of amendments. This process could be independent of any congressional action and offers unlimited possibilities for the reshaping of America.

Crazy you say? Can't happen here? Well, the people behind it are deadly serious and think it is a real option. Nobody thought Trump could be elected president either. Expect to start hearing a lot more about this soon.
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Nov 15 2016, 05:54 PM
Movement Conservatives are quietly rejoicing over victories in state legislatures which have brought them to within two or three states of having the necessary two-thirds majority to be able to invoke a Constitutional Convention and approaching the three-fourths majority necessary for ratification of amendments. This process could be independent of any congressional action and offers unlimited possibilities for the reshaping of America.

Crazy you say? Can't happen here? Well, the people behind it are deadly serious and think it is a real option. Nobody thought Trump could be elected president either. Expect to start hearing a lot more about this soon.
Stoking the flames. Democrat party descent into total chaos. I'll pay higher taxes to build work camps for them.

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