“We can’t operate this place without federal funding“, Spellings said before defending her university’s action amid the controversial bill accused of targeting transgender people.
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The North Carolina law, House Bill 2, forbids transgender individuals from entering a bathroom that does not correspond to their gender identity at birth.
“The U.S. Department of Justice has made clear that Governor McCrory’s HB2 is a discriminatory and risky piece of legislation that violates federal civil rights laws”, he said.
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who spoke at a press conference after filing the lawsuit, said that at present the Justice Department is seeking certification from North Carolina to ban the bathroom law, but squeezing federal funding was one of the options that could be considered in future.
“And that – the unsettled question of what federal law really requires regarding protections for transgender people – makes the fight over transgender students’ access to bathrooms somewhat different than the fight over desegregation”, The Post said.
Because it’s a public bathroom.
The Education Department has been reviewing funds and discussing whether to withhold federal education funding from the state, a move seen back in the 1960s. The law declares that state law overrides all local ordinances concerning wages, employement and public accommodations.
“It is now the Obama administration that is demanding that they have bathroom policies, not just in North Carolina but now gender-identity bathrooms for every private sector company in the United States of America with over 15 employees”, McCrory added.
He suggested the Congress revisit the 1964 Civil Rights Act, calling the issues at hand “complex”.
The Department of Justice originally notified North Carolina that House Bill 2 “violates federal Civil Rights laws”, giving them until the end of last week to strike down the bill.
The lawsuit was filed in the Eastern District of North Carolina, which is the same court that McCrory also filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department on Monday.
“I do not agree with their interpretation of federal law. It prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex”, said William Yeomans, a legal scholar who spent 26 years at the Justice Department during Democratic and Republican administrations.
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The Equality for All Act, filed Tuesday, will protect “all North Carolinians against discrimination in all walks of life”, the bill states. “It will only be bad for the economy if (Democratic gubernatorial candidate) Roy Cooper and his far-left allies from Washington, D.C.to California continue to smear the state and try to trash the state’s economy for their own political gain”.
