Wallace questioned McCrory’s classification of the federal government’s response to HB 2 as “overreach”, comparing the debate to bathrooms segregated by race. McCrory’s statement came after the Justice Department announced earlier this week that the state’s controversial House Bill 2 violates federal civil rights laws.
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“This is not just North Carolina”, said McCrory, arguing that every university that accepts federal funding is now in the same situation as those in his state.
“I don’t think that three working days is enough time for such a pretty big threat”, he told Fox News. That prompted the White House press secretary last week to clarify that the Justice Department acts on its own, and the president was not involved.
Moore said “It looks an very bad lot like politics to me”.
Replies McCrory: “That’s what they say but that’s not what the federal law says”. Senate Leader Phil Berger called it “a gross overreach”.
Reid was giddy that the federal government issued the state a hard deadline, of Monday May 9, to indicate if the state was going to enforce the law.
Democrats were quick to pounce.
“Specifically, the State is engaging in a pattern or practice of discrimination against transgender state employees and both you, in your official capacity, and the State are engaging in a pattern or practice of resistance to the full enjoyment of Title VII rights by transgender employees of public agencies”, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta said in the letter.
The Justice Department told the state it was engaged in a “pattern and practice” of discrimination for not providing restroom access according to gender identity as opposed to the sex on a birth certificate. If the standoff continues, it would likely have to be resolved in court.
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“The DOJ should be ashamed of itself for bullying North Carolinians, compromising the privacy and safety of our citizens, and spreading lies about what the clear language of Title IX and Title VII state”, the North Carolina Values Coalition said.
