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.

Democrat Josh Stein doesn’t take office until January, but Republicans are already working to make sure he has less power than outgoing Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper. Democrats broke the Republicans’ supermajority in the General Assembly by one vote in the election,

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