Judges issue split ruling on NC governor-legislature power struggle
RALEIGH, N.C. _ The North Carolina General Assembly's attempt to revamp the state elections board and ethics commission weeks before Democrat Roy Cooper was sworn in as the new governor violates the state Constitution, a three-judge panel ruled Friday.
The judges also found that a law that would have sharply reduced the number of at-will policymaking and managerial positions in Cooper's administration to be unconstitutional, too.
_The News & Observer
