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North Carolina state Rep. Destin Hall, R-Caldwell, center, speaks at a Legislative Building news conference in Raleigh, N.C., on Tuesday, Nov. 19. 2024, after the House Republican Caucus chose him as its nominee to be the House speaker for the 2025-26 General Assembly session (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson)

North Carolina state Rep. Destin Hall, R-Caldwell, center, speaks at a Legislative Building news conference in Raleigh, N.C., on Tuesday, Nov. 19. 2024, after the House Republican Caucus chose him as its nominee to be the House speaker for the 2025-26 General Assembly session (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson)

A placard expressing opposition to a Republican-penned measure being debated sits outside the North Carolina Senate gallery at a Legislative Building news conference in Raleigh, N.C., Wednesday, Nov. 20. 2024. (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson)

A placard expressing opposition to a Republican-penned measure being debated sits outside the North Carolina Senate gallery at a Legislative Building news conference in Raleigh, N.C., Wednesday, Nov. 20. 2024. (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson)

FILE - Amendment 3 supporters Luz Maria Henriquez, second from left, executive director of the ACLU Missouri, celebrates with Mallory Schwarz, center, of Abortion Action Missouri, after the Missouri Supreme Court in Jefferson City, Mo., ruled that the amendment to protect abortion rights would stay on the November ballot. Abortion-rights advocates will ask a judge Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024 to overturn Missouri’s near-total ban on the procedure, less than a month after voters backed an abortion-rights constitutional amendment. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, File)

FILE - Amendment 3 supporters Luz Maria Henriquez, second from left, executive director of the ACLU Missouri, celebrates with Mallory Schwarz, center, of Abortion Action Missouri, after the Missouri Supreme Court in Jefferson City, Mo., ruled that the amendment to protect abortion rights would stay on the November ballot. Abortion-rights advocates will ask a judge Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024 to overturn Missouri’s near-total ban on the procedure, less than a month after voters backed an abortion-rights constitutional amendment. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, File)

The Rev. Rob Stephens with the NC Poor People's Campaign speaks at a news conference outside the North Carolina Legislative Building in Raleigh, N.C. on Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson)

The Rev. Rob Stephens with the NC Poor People's Campaign speaks at a news conference outside the North Carolina Legislative Building in Raleigh, N.C. on Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson)