President Barack Obama has unleashed the legal hounds at the U.S. Department of Justice at the North Carolina’s bathroom law, and now claims the rule to keep men out of the women’s bathroom violates Federal civil rights laws.
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Lynch said the state is in danger of losing federal aid and that the federal lawsuit asks a court to bar HB2’s enforcement.
The law is receiving much criticism from other state leaders, with the states of New York, Minnesota, Connecticut, Vermont and Washington, in addition to the District of Columbia and 24 cities across the country, banning all “non-essential” travel to North Carolina by state workers or publicly funded transportation systems. The ruling by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which oversees North Carolina, interpreted the federal discrimination law Title IX in a way that directly affects a key aspect of the North Carolina case. North Carolina officials said the DOJ had a “radical reinterpretation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act”, Fox News reported. A state association of health officers rescinded its opposition to the bill after Ting removed them from that list. “The agencies must stop using falsehoods about what federal law requires to threaten student access to educational opportunities and financial assistance”. In 2014, travel spending statewide generated an estimated $1.7 billion in state and local sales tax revenue. “I have never been happier”, she said.
The standoff is an important moment in the fight over the law, which was rammed through the state legislature in less than a day. “Let’s pray for Gov. McCrory and all those fighting this battle for what is right”. The Act sets to amend General Statutes regarding housing, employment, lending, education and – unsurprisingly – public bathrooms and changing facilities.
McCrory went on to say the so-called “bathroom law” was meant to protect peoples’ privacy and equality.
“We didn’t think there was a problem at all until the Democrats brought this up in Charlotte, North Carolina”, McCrory, 59, a first-term Republican, told Jake Tapper on CNN.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch, in a news conference announcing the suit, called the law a “state-sanctioned discrimination” against transgender people.
Lynch said that the Justice Department was aware of other United States jurisdictions that have already passed or are contemplating similar laws, but did not comment whether any action was being planned against them.
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If passed, House Bill 1078 would outlaw discrimination against anyone when buying a home, getting a job, using a public restroom, earning an education and more, based on a person’s race, religion, sex, gender identity or handicap.
