North Carolina Was Told They're Violating the Civil Rights Act, So They Sued the US Justice Department
LatestLast week, the Justice Department told North Carolina they would have until Monday, May 9 to make a decision about HB2, a bill that overturned “every local LGBT anti-discrimination measure in the state” when passed in March: either dump the law and comply with the the Civil Rights Act, or implement the law and risk losing federal funding for public schools.
After a weekend of deliberation, the state lawyered up and steamrolled through door number 2 while screaming, “It’s Pat!” On Monday, the Washington Post reported that Gov. Pat McCrory filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department, accusing the feds of “baseless and blatant overreach” and calling their actions “an attempt to unilaterally rewrite long-established federal civil rights laws.”