“Let us reflect on the obvious but neglected lesson that state-sanctioned discrimination never looks good and never works in hindsight”.
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Asked by Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto what Trump’s view is concerning the transgender bathroom issue, Carson responded, “What he has said is that this is a civil issue that should be handled at the state level”.
Multiple law professors claimed taking this case to the highest court in the land isn’t out of the question.
“Not only will the university lose approximately $1.4 billion in funding, but the students will lose millions and millions of dollars in federal funding to be able to attend”, Tedesco said.
She also compared the bill to Jim Crow laws saying, “It was not very long ago that states, including North Carolina, had signs above restrooms, water fountains and on public accommodations keeping people out based upon a distinction without a difference”.
Lynch argued that the North Carolina law inflicts “further indignity on a population that has already suffered far more than its fair share”.
“Our lawsuit seeks to ensure that NC continues to receive federal funding until the courts clarify federal law & resolve this national issue”.
State lawmakers passed HB2, also known as the “bathroom bill”, that requires people to use the bathrooms based on their biological sex.
More than 200 businesses have urged the State Government to change the law.
A bitter dispute over transgender rights between the Obama Administration and the North Carolina state government has taken an ugly turn with both sueing each other in a federal court after feuding over the so-called “bathroom” law. “And it may not be easy, but we will get there together”. The anti-LGBT statute, the Justice Department concluded, “is facially discriminatory”.
Their letter asserts that North Carolina’s new law – which, among other things, prohibits transgender people from using bathrooms that don’t correspond to their birth sex – does not violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964 or Title IX regulations, which aim to ensure equality in public schools.
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory is going to court in a fight for a state law that limits protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
The U.S. Justice Department did North Carolina a favor when it warned the state that it was violating federal law by limiting the access of transgender people to restrooms in public schools and state buildings.
Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division stated Monday, that the lawsuit “speaks to all of us who have ever been made to feel inferior – like somehow we just don’t belong in our community, like somehow we just don’t fit in”.
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The department says a lawsuit against the state is possible.
