Not that I disagree with the Justice Department on this, but I do believe, if they stick to it, that it will enhance Republican Governor McCrory’s chances to get re-elected:
The U.S. Department of Justice has unequivocally upended one of North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory’s first promises to his constituents: That the discriminatory HB2 law would not jeopardize federal education funding to the state. In a letter to McCrory Wednesday, a Justice Department official called HB2 “facially discriminatory” against transgender individuals and said the department had determined the law violates both Title VII and Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
via Daily Kos
It may mean the loss of Federal fund to the state. The Justice Department has demanded that the state agree that it will not enforce the law. This gives the McGrory the opportunity to back down, but to blame the backdown on that bane of all white Southerners: federal interference in a state’s right to promote hate. Well, they don’t put it that way, but that’s the basic idea. This way he gets to satisfy the corporations that have said they would avoid the state, and the cretins who stay up nights worrying that the person in the stall next to them doesn’t have the appropriate plumbing.
I’m guessing that’s how he’ll play it, so he was probably pretty happy to get that letter from the Justice Department.
UPDATE: Looks like I called it right.
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