North Carolina Sued Over Anti-LGBT Law
Source: BuzzFeedNews
Three individuals and two LGBT advocacy groups early Monday morning filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the recently passed North Carolina law that nullified local LGBT rights ordinances and restricted transgender people’s access to restrooms.
“By singling out LGBT people for disfavored treatment and explicitly writing discrimination against transgender people into state law, H.B. 2 violates the most basic guarantees of equal treatment and the U.S. Constitution,” the lawsuit argues.
The complaint argues the law violates people’s equal protection, privacy, and liberty rights under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and their civil rights under Title IX of the Education Act of 1972.
The lawsuit is asking for a declaratory judgment that the law violates the Constitution and Title IX and an injunction against enforcement of the law.
Read more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/dominicholden/nc-anti-lgbt-law-lawsuit#.gvrQqYZgJA
While Roy Cooper (currently NC Attorney General) has been named as a defendant, along with Gov Pat McCrory (R), Cooper (D) is running for Governor. He has
started a petition--which has over 15,500 signatures already--demanding that HB 2 be repealed.
You can sign that petition here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10696264
It might be time for Cooper to resign from his office of AG and hit the campaign trail full time.
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