CHARLOTTE, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto stamp won’t be as heavy in the 2023 legislative session.
For the first two years of the North Carolina Democrat’s first term, Republicans had a veto-proof supermajority in the state legislature, and managed to override all but five of Cooper’s 28 vetoes.
Then Democrats knocked Republicans down to simple majorities in the 2018 elections, ensuring that the majority party needed help from some Democrats to override vetoes. That has never happened, and all of Cooper’s vetoes since 2019 have been upheld.
