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A political showdown between North Carolina and the federal 
government loomed Thursday as Republican state leaders vowed to 
defy the U.S. Justice Department’s deadline to repeal the 
state’s contentious new bathroom law.

The Justice Department notified Gov. Pat McCrory in a letter 
Wednesday that the state’s House Bill 2, which restricts 
transgender bathroom access and has become a flashpoint in the 
LGBT rights fight, violates sections of the 1964 Civil Rights 
Act. It gave the state until Monday to "remedy" the violations.

On Thursday, House Speaker Tim Moore said legislators would not 
meet the federal government’s deadline.

“We will take no action by Monday,” Moore told the Raleigh News 
& Observer. “That deadline will come and go. We don’t ever want 
to lose any money, but we’re not going to get bullied by the 
Obama administration to take action prior to Monday’s date. 
That’s not how this works.”

In a statement, McCrory said he would review the letter to 
determine the state’s next steps. “The Obama administration has 
not only staked out its position for North Carolina, but for all 
states, universities and most employers in the U.S.” McCrory 
said. “The right and expectation of privacy in one of the most 
private areas of our personal lives is now in jeopardy.”

Other Republican leaders also reacted strongly against the 
letter. Phil Berger, the president pro tempore of the North 
Carolina Senate, called the letter “a gross overreach by the 
Obama Justice Department that deserves to be struck down in 
federal court.”

The Justice Department has several options, experts say. The 
Civil Rights Division can apply for a federal court order that 
will require compliance, putting the case in the hands of a 
federal judge. It could also start initiating action to limit 
the distribution of federal funds. Last year, the Department of 
Education gave North Carolina $4.3 billion for public 
kindergartens, schools and colleges.

“This sets up a battle between the state and the federal 
government,” said Jane R. Wettach, a professor of law at Duke 
University, a private university in Durham, N.C. “Our state 
officials are saying that this is federal government overreach, 
but the federal government has the power, certainly over federal 
funds.”

There is no recent precedent for the federal government 
threatening to withdraw public education funds over a state law, 
although federal agencies have threatened to exert sanctions on 
some school districts to change their transgender restroom 
policies.

In November, federal education officials found a high school 
district in Palatine, Ill., violated Title IX antidiscrimination 
laws by not allowing a transgender student who identifies as a 
girl full access to the girls’ locker room. The school 
eventually backed down. Yet on Wednesday, a group of families 
filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of 
Education, the Department of Justice and the school district, 
alleging that their actions "trample students' privacy" rights 
and create an "intimidating and hostile environment" for female 
students.

The North Carolina standoff has echoes of the federal 
government’s battle with states over desegregation more than 
half a century ago, Wettach said. For about 10 years, school 
systems across the South refused to follow the landmark 1954 
Brown vs. Board of Education court order that they desegregate – 
until the federal government threatened to cut off education 
funds.

“There is a precedent for the federal government holding the 
purse strings and saying, “Unless you follow our interpretation 
of civil rights, you won’t get your money,” she said.

The conflict initially began as a showdown between city and 
state. In February, the state’s largest city, Charlotte, passed 
a pro-LGBT ordinance that expanded nondiscrimination protections 
to sexual orientation and gender identity and allowed people to 
choose restrooms according to the gender with which they 
identify.

Before the city’s ordinance went into effect, however, 
Republicans rushed through a law that orders schools and public 
agencies to require multiple-occupancy restrooms to be used by 
people based on the sex listed on their birth certificate. The 
law, which was signed by McCrory in March, also prevents cities 
from extending anti-discrimination laws to LGBT people and 
passing any increase in the minimum wage.

In a letter to McCrory, Vanita Gupta, principal deputy assistant 
attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, stated that HB2 
violates Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits 
employers from discriminating, as well as Title IX of the 1972 
Education Amendments, which bars discrimination in education 
based on sex.

"Specifically, the state is engaging in a pattern or practice of 
discrimination against transgender state employees and both you, 
in your official capacity, and the state are engaging in a 
pattern or practice of resistance to the full enjoyment of Title 
VII rights by transgender employees of public agencies.”

To "remedy" the violations, the Justice Department required the 
state to confirm that it will not implement HB2, and to notify 
state and public employees that they can access bathrooms that 
correspond to their gender identity.

The Justice Department also sent letters to the University of 
North Carolina, citing an alleged violation of Title IX, as well 
as to the state’s secretary of public safety, citing an alleged 
violation of the 2013 Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-north-carolina-doj-20160505-
story.html

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