ALERT: North Carolina’s Defiant Governor Just Told Obama’s DOJ To Take That Threat And Shove It

 
oped: See: http://sharlaslabyrinth.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-attorney-general-says-womens-safety.html



by: Norvell Rose 
"...baseless and blatant overreach..."

UPDATE: Since this post was published early Monday, the Department of Justice has chosen to fight fire with fire, filing its own lawsuit against North Carolina, charging the state with promoting discrimination and violating the civil rights of citizens who claim they are transgenders.
Facing a Monday deadline set by the Obama administration to either scrap the state’s new “bathroom” law or face legal action and risk losing billions in federal funds, North Carolina has replied with a bold and defiant strike — it’s just filed suit against the Department of Justice (DOJ).
The governor of the Tar Heel State, Republican Pat McCrory, didn’t wait for President Obama’s DOJ to follow through with its threat. McCrory made the first big move in the dispute by suing the Department of Justice on Monday.

As Fox News reported, the governor’s lawsuit is “a bid to preserve the state’s controversial ‘bathroom’ law, after the Obama administration said the policy violates the civil rights of transgender people.”
The state law requires all people — including those who identify as transgender — to use public bathrooms that correspond with the biological sex stipulated on their birth certificates.
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After saying that the federal government’s Monday deadline for acting on its demand was unreasonable, Gov. McCrory filed the suit in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of North Carolina. “The Department’s position is a baseless and blatant overreach,” the suit says, in part. “This is an attempt to unilaterally rewrite long-established federal civil rights laws in a manner that is wholly inconsistent with the intent of Congress and disregards decades of statutory interpretation by the Courts.”
As USA Today notes of the North Carolina governor’s swift reply to the DOJ’s bathroom law threat:

McCrory’s defiance could risk funding for the state’s university system and lead to a protracted legal battle. The 17-campus UNC system risks losing more than $1.4 billion in federal money. Another $800 million in federally backed loans for students who attend public universities also would be at risk if it’s found that enforcing the law violates Title IX of the Civil Rights Act, which bars discrimination based on sex.

After coming under intense fire from LGBT rights groups as well as entertainers and some corporate leaders critical of the controversial bathroom law, McCrory called the newly enacted legislation a common-sense measure. The GOP chief executive said the new law is designed to protect the privacy and safety of people who expect all people inside the bathrooms and locker rooms they use to be of the same gender.
A CNN piece on the new law points out, “Musicians Bruce Springsteen, Demi Lovato, Nick Jonas, and the bands Pearl Jam and Boston have canceled concerts in the state — which has cost one major venue nearly $200,000 in ticket sales.
“PayPal and Deutsche Bank have both canceled plans to expand into North Carolina.”