Speaker 1: Now it's time for our daily Bloomberg lave Reef exploring
Speaker 1: legal issues in the news, and Today Bloomberg Laho student
Speaker 1: Grosso and Michael Best discuss attempts by North Carolina's legislature
Speaker 1: at a strict power from the state's incoming Democratic governor.
Speaker 1: They speak with Michael Gerhard, a professor at UNC School
Speaker 1: of Law, and Robert Courstad, a professor at Duke University. Michael,
Speaker 1: this looks like a blatant attempt to subvert the will
Speaker 1: of the people who voted for change with Cooper. But
Speaker 1: is it legal? Well, that's a really good question. So
Speaker 1: I think there's not much doubt. This is just a
Speaker 1: transparent sort of um act of sort of political will
Speaker 1: on the part of the Republican majority to kind of
Speaker 1: Tyroy Cooper's hands and weaken his governorship. UM. Whether it's
Speaker 1: legal or not, I think is that someone uh cover question.
Speaker 1: There is no obviously knock out paunched, no obvious reason
Speaker 1: why it's illegal. Maybe one basis on which it could
Speaker 1: be challenged is the state contitution does typically does best
Speaker 1: authority UM in the state Board of Education, which is
Speaker 1: has been weakened and redesigned pursuing to this law. So
Speaker 1: there may well be a challenge under state law. And
Speaker 1: there's some other federal issues that may deal with deluding
Speaker 1: the federal vote here as well, but those are longer shots. Robert.
Speaker 1: You know, if you've been in government at all, you
Speaker 1: hear people talk about when there's an outgoing administration, the
Speaker 1: desire to figure out ways to lock in their accomplishments
Speaker 1: and keep whatever policies they think are great in place.
Speaker 1: But usually, you know, there's an acceptance that you have
Speaker 1: to that the new the new administration, whoever it is,
Speaker 1: is going to do what they're gonna do, and you know,
Speaker 1: pursuing to their policies. Is there any precedent for this
Speaker 1: sort of thing, Well, I don't know. There's no no
Speaker 1: real precedent in North Carolina. I means, surely after changes
Speaker 1: of administrations between different political parties, which has only happened
Speaker 1: a couple of times in the twenty century in North Carolina. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, the party in power tries to do a
Speaker 1: few things, perhaps to protect jobs or to protect some
Speaker 1: things that they put in place. But uh, this kind
Speaker 1: of uh, you know, messing with the governor's ability to
Speaker 1: uh to nominate people to the Board of Elections, the
Speaker 1: the his his ability to nominate trustees to the U
Speaker 1: n C school system, all of these things that are
Speaker 1: things that, uh, we've never seen in the history North Carolina.
Speaker 1: So even though it it gets tagged by the Republicans
Speaker 1: it's just partisan politics as usual, there's really something quite
Speaker 1: new about what they're doing. And it's Robert Corstad, a
Speaker 1: professor at Duke University, and Michael Gerhard, a professor at
Speaker 1: U n C School of Law, speaking with Bloomberg Law, Hoos,
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