If a court upholds the U.S. attorney general’s position, the state of North Carolina stands to lose $861m in federal funding for schools.
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“The Department of Justice is totally out of control”, Perkins said in an email distributed to the press.
A Justice Department spokesperson would not say Thursday whether or not the agency would pursue legal action against North Carolina or what finances might be restricted should they do so.
The Justice Department’s letter says that by abiding by the law known as HB2, UNC is violating Title VII and Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Violence Against Women Act.
Pat McCrory (R) that the law violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.
The former law school dean at nearby Duke University, Katharine Bartlett, says the potential loss of this federal money means Washington is holding a very big stick.
Earlier Wednesday, the Family Research Council, which favors the bathroom law, launched a social media ad campaign that questions why federal agencies are investigating.
“It’s just at a standoff now as to what’s going to happen”, Pierce said. “Obviously there’ll have to be some response – you’ve got the deadline – but I don’t see the legislature, as the legislature, taking any specific response”, he said Thursday morning.
All of Robeson County’s five legislative delegates are Democrats.
Demonstrators against House Bill 2 protest outside the Governor’s Mansion in downtown Raleigh, N.C., on March 24.
“We have to do something”.
Companies like Bank of America and Apple have criticised the law.
To date, Spellings has made contradictory statements about how the university should respond, saying on the one hand, UNC “will not tolerate any sort of harassing or discriminatory behavior on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation” but also that UNC “is bound to comply” with HB2.
Roberts said they had a productive discussion and that she looks forward to more dialogue.
North Carolina legislators told President Barack Obama and the U.S. Justice Department that they will not meet the imposed May 9 deadline to nullify the controversial “bathroom bill”, which the Justice Department has said is discriminatory to transgender people. “The DOJ should stop bullying North Carolina with falsehoods about what federal law requires”.
According to a report published in The Guardian, Federal officials have recently started warning states for discrimination against transgender students in school bathrooms.
North Carolina Attorney General and Democratic candidate for governor Roy Cooper said: “Enough is enough”. “Who loses from that?” All the children and young adults involved in the education system of North Carolina.
Of course there were other politicians who chimed to express their frustrations – and by politicians, we mean Republicans – as House Speaker Tim Moore said that GOP leaders are now talking with attorneys regarding how to respond to the letter which they seem to believe is “a huge overreach (by) the federal government”.
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The conservative legal group that filed the IL lawsuit says the Obama administration’s position is flawed.
