Both the North Carolina executive and legislative branch expressed no confidence in the North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper to perform his legal duties in defending the voter ID law.  Both the executive and legislative branch have hired outside representation to represent the interests of the people of North Carolina. 

Roy Cooper says the representation is a waste of money.  However, Cooper is running for Governor and his partisan criticism of the voter ID law was cited in the Department of Justice complaint.  The attorney for North Carolina should have been more careful in his comments; instead he gave his legal opponents at DOJ ammunition.