The two courts could take up the cases and decide them separately, and if their rulings conflicted, it would spur a decision from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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The matter is expected to go to federal courts and likely will end up in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.
“It’s a moment where we can start talking about this”, Young said.
“I am pleased that the Governor and the Legislature (have) acted to stand up against this gross overreach by the Obama administration; an administration who desires to twist the intent of a 50 plus year old federal law in a manner that would allow grown men to simply identify as a woman with the nefarious intention to exploit the privacy rights of women and children in the most intimate of situations”, Millis wrote in an email.
Three game studios in North Carolina have come out against North Carolina’s controversial “bathroom bill”, a law seen by many as infringing on the rights of transgender individuals.
Lynch said in a news conference “They created state-sponsored discrimination against transgendered individuals who seek to engage in the most private of functions in a place of safety and security”. “In the meantime, we are going to continue to focus on our primary mission of educating students”. We saw it in fierce and widespread resistance to Brown v. Board of Education.
“We’ve not violated any provision of Title IX or Title VII as it relates to House Bill 2”, UNC President Margaret Spellings said, agreeing with Bissette that no changes are planned in any campus’ nondiscrimination policies and noting that House Bill 2 doesn’t spell out how to enforce the bathroom regulations or any penalties for violators.
The Justice Department has compared HB2 to Jim Crow laws..
She is pleased with Lynch’s action and has not yet spoken with the attorney general, but plans to. It also establishes a statewide non-discrimination policy that does not protect against discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation.
Billions of dollars of federal funding may be at stake in the dispute.
The federal government demanded the state “remedy” the act or risk being in violation of federal law.
Governor McCrory responded Monday with a statement asking for clarification on the federal law.
“I really tried to plead with him as the former mayor of the great city of Charlotte, I said, please, understand what you’re doing”, she said. This is a time to summon our national virtues of inclusivity, diversity, compassion and open-mindedness.
Later in the day, the Justice Department responded by suing the state, seeking a court order declaring the law discriminatory and unenforceable. While awaiting confirmation as attorney general, she was appointed to lead the Justice Department’s 2014 civil rights investigation into the death of Eric Garner in NY.
Riley said she doesn’t understand the argument that the law will protect young girls from predators – she thinks bad people will find a way to do bad things regardless of such a law.
It also changes the current House Bill 2 by saying public accommodations (such as bathrooms) “shall provide access to such facilities based on a person’s gender identity”.
Will bathroom attendants be required to be in front of every bathroom in every building in the state to check your birth certificate?
“It’s either a common-sense measure, or rooted in ignorance, depending on whom you ask”, Jeff Tiberii of WUNC reported for NPR’s Morning Edition.
“And there’s no consensus on which party this benefits the most”.
Monday’s actions carry immediate practical impact, moving the debate into the courtroom and potentially putting on notice other states that in recent months have proposed similar laws limiting protections for gay, bisexual and transgender people.
The DOJ, in turn, was less than impressed with the state’s lawsuit.
And the university system, dependent on federal funding that could be cut off if officials comply with state law, is caught squarely in the middle. “Another knob whose money I don’t want”, he said.
Several House Democrats on Tuesday filed a sweeping anti-discrimination bill, which may not garner enough Republican support to succeed but it makes for a timely statement.
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“The idea that this is some imminent threat is an empty one”, he said.
