North Carolina’s new $300 billion state budget contains a provision that gives extraordinary investigative powers to a partisan oversight committee co-chaired by Senate Leader Phil Berger (R) and House Speaker Tim Moore (R). The Joint Legislative Committee on Government Operations — or Gov Ops for short — is empowered to seize “any document or system of record” from anyone who works in or with state and local government during its investigations. The rule applies to contractors, subcontractors, and any other non-state entity “receiving, directly and indirectly, public funds,” including charities and state universities.
Even more crazy is that you can’t tell anyone you’ve been raided, including seeking or talking to legal counsel.
So you technically are denied legal counsel if you are targeted by a blatently unconstitutional search.
And it’s legal for them to destroy any incriminating records that they want at any time.
Unlimited power to target whoever they want and no legal recourse.
Welcome to Germany 1935.
This law is categorically unconstitutional. It is a prima facie contradiction of multiple specific amendments in the bill of rights. This will certainly be thrown out - even hard-right judges won’t be able to justify this. It’s clearly not reasonable in the slightest.
So are the lawnakers complete morons or do they have an ulterior motive?
Yes.
Their motives are strictly unconstitutional and pure evil. Republicans want their own private gestapo.
It’s political theatre. If it passes, they get a Gestapo. If it is thrown out (likely), they can chum the waters and get their base frothing about “woke judges” or some shit.
Either way, they win.
Complete morons or performative assholes, you say?
I dunno about that, Supreme Court looking pretty right wing lately
The SC wants to maintain the roots of their power. Undercutting certain parts of the constitution does the opposite of that, because it implies others can do the same in areas they don’t want touched.
Maybe they should have thought of that before overturning stare decisis, lol
This will be a federal conservative policy soon enough
Reminds me more of Eastern Germany to be honest. But yeah, that’s fucked up no matter where it happened before.
So moral of the story, keep everything backed up to the cloud. Though the fun thing is, NC is so awash in guns, sending goons to raid someone’s home is likely to result in some ventilated goons.
Setting aside this story that is absolutely ridiculous and horrible, why are people obsessed with claiming that nazi Germany has begun with every scary story out there? Calm your tits.