North Carolina is really going to the mat with this one.
Because the NC failed to meet a deadline in either repealing or fixing its law requiring transgender people to use public bathrooms matching their birth certificates, the U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Monday that the Department of Justice has filed a federal lawsuit with the state.
“This is not the first time that we have seen discriminatory responses to historic moments of progress for our nation,” Lynch says in the clip above. “We saw it in the Jim Crow laws that followed the Emancipation Proclamation; we saw it in the fierce and widespread resistance toBrown v. Board of Education; and we saw it in the proliferation of state bans on same-sex unions that were intended to stifle any hope that gay and lesbian Americans might one day be afforded the right to marry.”
What’s with North Carolina. I’ve never visited the state, but I thought they were smarter than this. Isn’t there a booming tech industry? Research Triangle?
Because the NC failed to meet a deadline in either repealing or fixing its law requiring transgender people to use public bathrooms matching their birth certificates, the U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Monday that the Department of Justice has filed a federal lawsuit with the state.
“This is not the first time that we have seen discriminatory responses to historic moments of progress for our nation,” Lynch says in the clip above. “We saw it in the Jim Crow laws that followed the Emancipation Proclamation; we saw it in the fierce and widespread resistance toBrown v. Board of Education; and we saw it in the proliferation of state bans on same-sex unions that were intended to stifle any hope that gay and lesbian Americans might one day be afforded the right to marry.”
What’s with North Carolina. I’ve never visited the state, but I thought they were smarter than this. Isn’t there a booming tech industry? Research Triangle?