HB2 lawyer to be head of Civil Rights Division (Not Confirmed)

[djsunyc]

According to reports, Donald Trump has appointed John Gore, the attorney who defended North Carolina’s controversial transgender bathroom bill, HB2, to a key civil rights role in the Department of Justice.

The Administration has not publicly confirmed Gore’s appointment, and there has been no formal nomination. Legal news and gossip blog, Above the Law, included Gore in its list of mega-law firm Jones Day alumni serving in Trump’s administration, and the National Law Journal noted that Gore would serve as a Deputy Attorney General in the Civil Rights division, but did not say if would head up the department.

Gore took over defending the North Carolina law, which nullified local laws protecting transgender individuals who chose to use a bathroom based on their gender identity, after North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper (now the state’s governor) said that his office would not go to court to repel legal challenges to the law.

In that case, Gore represented several higher education clients, including the University of North Carolina, battling the Obama Administration’s claim that enforcing HB2 on university campuses violated Title IX gender discrimination protections. Gore withdrew from that case earlier this week.

While with Jones Day, Gore was also part of a team that successfully defended controversial redistricting plans in New York, South Carolina and Florida. Gore is best known, however, for his work in the area of anti-trust.

[Jimbo101]

1. Sessions and Gore - going backwards in time

[KewlKat]

2. looks like President Obama won't have a long rest after all. I think he said if they start messing

with voting rights, etc.....he'd be back!

[FiveGoodMen]

4. Sounds great, but what can he do about it now?

[marybourg]

3. The Kakastocracy strikes! nt.