Source: Emery P. Dalesio, FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER, 10/2/18

 North Carolina legislators can claim for themselves the right to reject a governor’s choices for top jobs like collecting taxes or registering automobiles, lawyers defending a state law told the state Supreme Court on Tuesday. The law doesn’t violate the constitutional principle that government powers be separated and balanced because legislators can create or alter state agencies, so they have a right to consent to who runs them, lawyers for the Republican-led General Assembly said.

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