Former NC governors file motion in case challenging legislature's overhaul of election boards

[RandySF]

North Carolina’s five living former governors filed paperwork Tuesday in the Court of Appeals seeking leave to submit a friend-of-the-court brief supporting Gov. Roy Cooper’s legal challenge to a law that would shift the power to appoint state and county election boards to the General Assembly

Republicans Jim Martin and Pat McCrory joined Democrats Mike Easley, Bev Perdue and Jim Hunt to support the filing. This is the second time this month that the former governors have backed Cooper, who is also battling GOP legislative leaders over appointments to seven other state boards and commissions.

“The five living former Governors of North Carolina have a strong interest in this case: their interest in preserving the executive power, status, and dignity that the Constitution confers on the Office of the Governor,” lawyers for the former governors wrote in a court filing Tuesday.

In March, a three-judge panel sided unanimously with Cooper, ruling that the Republican-controlled legislature unlawfully tried to seize from the governor the power to appoint members of the state Board of Elections and shift it to the legislature.





https://ncnewsline.com/briefs/all-five-living-former-nc-governors-file-motion-in-case-challenging-legislatures-board-of-lections-overhaul/

[dchill]

1. That's not something I'd have expected.