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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHB2 lawyer to be head of Civil Rights Division (Not Confirmed)
According to reports, Donald Trump has appointed John Gore, the attorney who defended North Carolinas controversial transgender bathroom bill, HB2, to a key civil rights role in the Department of Justice.
The Administration has not publicly confirmed Gores appointment, and there has been no formal nomination. Legal news and gossip blog, Above the Law, included Gore in its list of mega-law firm Jones Day alumni serving in Trumps administration, and the National Law Journal noted that Gore would serve as a Deputy Attorney General in the Civil Rights division, but did not say if would head up the department.
Gore took over defending the North Carolina law, which nullified local laws protecting transgender individuals who chose to use a bathroom based on their gender identity, after North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper (now the states governor) said that his office would not go to court to repel legal challenges to the law.
In that case, Gore represented several higher education clients, including the University of North Carolina, battling the Obama Administrations claim that enforcing HB2 on university campuses violated Title IX gender discrimination protections. Gore withdrew from that case earlier this week.
While with Jones Day, Gore was also part of a team that successfully defended controversial redistricting plans in New York, South Carolina and Florida. Gore is best known, however, for his work in the area of anti-trust.
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HB2 lawyer to be head of Civil Rights Division (Not Confirmed) (Original Post)
djsunyc
Jan 2017
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Jimbo101
(776 posts)1. Sessions and Gore - going backwards in time
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)2. looks like President Obama won't have a long rest after all. I think he said if they start messing
with voting rights, etc.....he'd be back!
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)4. Sounds great, but what can he do about it now?
marybourg
(12,639 posts)3. The Kakastocracy strikes! nt.