But on this morning — after telling Democrats that there would be no votes — the House Republicans used the skeletal session to ambush Democrats with the biggest vote of the year.

…Rep. Deb Butler, a Democrat from the coast, immediately stood and objected. Other members asked to be recognized so they could object, but the speaker refused to recognize them and proceeded with the vote.

…When they called the surprise vote, barely half the members of the body were present — almost all of them Republicans. They had planned this.

An anti-democratic outrage in North Carolina – New York Daily News

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