As you may recall from late last year, North Carolina Republicans responded to their narrow loss of the governorship in November with a flurry of lame duck legislation limiting the governor’s (already relatively weak) powers. Not to say it was a wise choice, but they were following in the tradition of North Carolina Democrats, who had done exactly the same thing back when they held majority control of the state legislature.
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