A couple of weeks after announcing his retirement from Gov. Roy Cooper’s Cabinet, Erik Hooks is in line for a top federal emergency management post. President Biden nominated Hooks Tuesday to serve as deputy administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. That’s FEMA’s No. 2 job. It requires Senate confirmation. Hooks announced earlier this month...
The separation-of-powers battle between Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and the Republican-led General Assembly won’t end any time soon. A three-judge panel of Superior Court judges ruled Friday that portions of two laws passed during a December special session of the legislature that reorganized aspects of state government were unconstitutional, while a provision allowing the Senate...
(Updated at 3:47 p.m. to include new information from Sen. Berger’s spokeswoman Shelly Carver.) Gov. Roy Cooper’s debate over the definition of a “Cabinet appointee” summons the memory of President Clinton infamously arguing before a grand jury over the meaning of the word “is.” In this case, legislative leaders are saying Cooper’s vocabulary polemics could...
A three-judge panel heard arguments Friday over whether to grant a temporary injunction blocking Senate confirmation of Gov. Roy Cooper’s Cabinet nominees. That same panel — Superior Court Judges Jesse Caldwell III, Todd Burke, and Jeffrey Foster — on Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order in favor of Cooper, who has filed a lawsuit citing...
UPDATE, Tuesday 7 a.m. Gov. Cooper filed a request in Superior Court for a temporary restraining order to halt the confirmation of his Cabinet appointees until the litigation is complete. WRAL reports a hearing on that request could take place today. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has asked Republican Senate leaders to delay confirmation hearings on...
As a special Senate committee on Tuesday began hammering out details for confirming Gov. Roy Cooper’s Cabinet nominees, the back-and-forth between the governor and the General Assembly over the legality of the confirmation requirement continued. The process will mirror that used by the U.S. Senate, with an added step: North Carolina Cabinet-level nominees will have...
The way the General Assembly confirms Cabinet appointees, by invoking the Senate’s constitutional authority, will mirror methods used in other states. The Senate unanimously adopted a framework for its advice-and-consent confirmation process for Cabinet secretaries as part of the rules for the session on the opening day of the 2017 legislative long session. Some states use select...
Senators from both parties Wednesday cited the state Constitution and precedent in defending a law passed in December reducing the governor’s number of political appointees and requiring confirmation of his Cabinet members. Gov. Roy Cooper added challenges to those provisions to an existing lawsuit he filed against another bill reorganizing several aspects of state government....
Like the current administration, Polk had to answer questions over whether we would have an activist government or a minimalist one, whether America would look forward or inward, and whether we would lead or be led in international affairs. Polk found solutions; the jury is still out on Obama.
RALEIGH — A gaping budget shortfall isn’t the only hurdle Gov. Bev Perdue will face in the first months of her administration. She also must decide how to respond to a lawsuit accusing former Gov. Mike Easley of permitting his staff to unlawfully erase e-mail correspondence between state employees.
Gov. Beverly Perdue began her administration – actually, the last week of her pre-administration – with several good decisions.
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