As Stein did with the state’s abortion statute last year while in office, this will stop Jeff, the new Democratic Attorney General, from declining to defend laws approved by the Legislature.
Over the course of two days in November, the measure—which was drafted behind closed doors and offered as a committee substitute that prohibited revisions in committee—passed both of the Republican-controlled legislative chambers.
“The bill, to be clear, is a power grab, not disaster relief,” Stein said at a conference of the Democratic Governors Association in California last weekend. “It’s petty and wrong-headed.”
The action was described as “wrong, disgusting, and emblematic of the Republican Party — desperate attempts to consolidate power.
At all costs instead of trying to improve North Carolinians’ lives” by Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison in a statement.
