The Republican-controlled North Carolina state Senate overrode Gov. Roy Cooper’s (D-NC) veto on a bill that would strip executive power from the state’s newly elected Democrats and give it to state legislators.

Along party lines, the GOP-dominated state Senate voted successfully to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill that in part would weaken Gov.-elect Josh Stein, the next attorney general in Jeff Jackson and other Democrats also elected in November as lieutenant governor and schools superintendent.

North Carolina Senate Republicans on Monday voted to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s recent veto of a Republican-passed bill designed to

The North Carolina Senate voted to override a veto from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper on Monday amid protests, the latest example of Republicans using their supermajority power after election results indicated they will lose it next month. The House would have to take a similar vote before Cooper’s veto is overturned and the bill becomes law.

North Carolina Republicans want to pass legislation to reduce the authority of incoming Democrats as the next session and final election results rapidly approach.

The North Carolina Senate is overriding Governor Roy Cooper’s veto on Senate Bill 832. The Monday vote was 30-19. Cooper called the bill a ‘sham’ and a power grab by Republicans and said that it was disguised as Helene relief funding to get it pushed through.

North Carolina legislative Republicans are closing in on enacting a measure that would erode powers of the incoming governor and other statewide Democratic officials who got elected last month