Justice Department sues North Carolina over transgender 'bathroom law'

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LBN thread: DOJ Sues To Block North Carolina's Anti-LGBT Bill

Source: Reuters

World | Mon May 9, 2016 4:47pm EDT

Justice Department sues North Carolina over transgender 'bathroom law'

WASHINGTON | BY JULIA HARTE

The U.S. Justice Department on Monday sued North Carolina to get it to abandon a law that restricts use of public restrooms, further escalating a fight over the rights of transgender Americans.

Hours earlier, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory and the state's secretary of public safety had sued the agency for declaring the law a civil rights violation, accusing it of "baseless and blatant overreach."

In March, North Carolina became the first state in the country to ban people from using multiple occupancy restrooms or changing rooms in public buildings and schools that do not match the sex on their birth certificate.

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said the department also "retains the option" of curtailing federal funding to North Carolina over the issue.

"None of us can stand by when a state enters the business of legislating identity and insists that a person pretend to be something or someone that they are not," said Lynch, comparing the measure to Jim Crow-era racial discrimination laws and bans on same-sex marriage.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-north-carolina-lgbt-idUSKCN0Y00CB

[Jackie Wilson Said]

1. Governor said two things that give me chills, one was the lie that he and his idiot

right wing friends were not looking for this fight, of course they were.

And second he encouraged all governors to do what he is doing.

Make no mistake, what you see now in states like NC will be the national agenda if the Democrat isnt elected.