Posted on 04/03/2016 10:00:29 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
The Obama administration is considering whether North Carolina’s new law on gay and transgender rights makes the state ineligible for billions of dollars in federal aid for schools, highways and housing, officials said Friday.
Cutting off any federal money — or even simply threatening to do so — would put major new pressure on North Carolina to repeal the law, which eliminated local protections for gay and transgender people and restricted which bathrooms transgender people can use. A loss of federal money could send the state into a budget crisis and jeopardize services that are central to daily life.
Although experts said such a drastic step was unlikely, at least immediately, the administration’s review puts North Carolina on notice that the new law could have financial consequences. Gov. Pat McCrory of North Carolina had assured residents that the law would not jeopardize federal money for education.
But the law also represents a test for the Obama administration, which has declared that the fight for gay and transgender rights is a continuation of the civil rights era. The North Carolina dispute forces the administration to decide how aggressively to fight on that principle.
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Maybe this could be the beginning of states telling the Feds to butt out...I can dream
Maybe North Carolina should exclude themselves from paying federal income taxes....
hmmm
The Obama administration is considering whether North Carolina’s new law on gay and transgender rights makes the state ineligible for billions of dollars in federal aid for schools, highways and housing …And all of those are things that the states are not supposed to have to worry about being dependent on any central government for. Never mind it being unconstitutional for the executive branch to have any involvement in same.
Great western. The bar keep got a bunch of splinters from a special effect that I don’t think was planned.
North Carolina should tell the Feds to stuff it. Get along without their money as best you can. Federal tyranny must be broken. The best way to start is to tell them to keep their money and their interference to themselves.
But sanctuary cities are just fine.
Exactly. Right on mark!
A lot of politics on the table here and posturing.
The Obama Democrats have to do this ‘review’ to make their LGBT base happy during the 2016 election campaign for the votes.
The GOP passed this reversal of the transgender ordinance with the election year and its base in mind after they gave Trump and Cruz massive support on primary election day.
Last year Governor Pat McCrory (R), who is running for re-election this year, vetoed religious freedom legislation just like that recently vetoed by the GOP governor in Georgia, Nathan Deal.
Now McCrory turns around and supports this trangender law thing in the election year.
He squeezed his Democrat opponent in the general election, who is North Carolina’s attorney general. The AG is declining to defend the law from a federal lawsuit.
The passage of the law and the debate over it is very much political maneuvering and it will be interesting to see once the election dust has settled and the federal court rules, how the GOP politicians will react.
Okay, but is there a downside to that? The Feds may not mess up highways that much, but losing their touch there is a small price to pay for getting them out of our schools and "housing." That last word is code for mandating that conservative voting districts be broken up with "affordable" (slum-dweller) housing--which will be filled with urban welfare moms who probably don't vote themselves, but whose votes will fraudulently registered and cast by Democratic Party operatives.
LGBT?
Oh, you mean that group of lunatic queers with their inherited diseases.
Took the words out of my mouth.
The bill which they sought to pass with no referendum gave predators a free hand in locker rooms and bathrooms, violating state law. This woman has compiled a damning laundry list of trans predators, whose account runs on for almost twenty four minutes.
Women: Decide for Yourselves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzwMJAFWLtQ&feature=youtu.be
Taxation without representation. The other 49 get theirs.
bump for later
Well the upside would be that North Carolina would no longer be bribed by federal money to comply with federal education standards. Washington, go pound sand!
“Maybe North Carolina should exclude themselves from paying federal income taxes....”
Is there any law that bars the federal government from
threatening a state with nuclear annihilation?
Men just need to use the women’s bathrooms. Piss all over the seats and floors. The feminists will be screaming for a return to single gender bathrooms in no time.
The most important question that was ever proposed to your decision, or to the decision of any people under heaven, is before you, and you are to decide upon it by men of your own election, chosen specially for this purpose. If the constitution, offered to your acceptance, be a wise one, calculated to preserve the invaluable blessings of liberty, to secure the inestimable rights of mankind, and promote human happiness, then, if you accept it, you will lay a lasting foundation of happiness for millions yet unborn; generations to come will rise up and call you blessed. You may rejoice in the prospects of this vast extended continent becoming filled with freemen, who will assert the dignity of human nature. You may solace yourselves with the idea, that society, in this favoured land, will fast advance to the highest point of perfection; the human mind will expand in knowledge and virtue, and the golden age be, in some measure, realised. But if, on the other hand, this form of government contains principles that will lead to the subversion of liberty — if it tends to establish a despotism, or, what is worse, a tyrannic aristocracy; then, if you adopt it, this only remaining assylum for liberty will be shut up, and posterity will execrate your memory.
Momentous then is the question you have to determine, and you are called upon by every motive which should influence a noble and virtuous mind, to examine it well, and to make up a wise judgment. It is insisted, indeed, that this constitution must be received, be it ever so imperfect. If it has its defects, it is said, they can be best amended when they are experienced. But remember, when the people once part with power, they can seldom or never resume it again but by force. Many instances can be produced in which the people have voluntarily increased the powers of their rulers; but few, if any, in which rulers have willingly abridged their authority. This is a sufficient reason to induce you to be careful, in the first instance, how you deposit the powers of government.
So far therefore as its powers reach, all ideas of confederation are given up and lost. It is true this government is limited to certain objects, or to speak more properly, some small degree of power is still left to the states, but a little attention to the powers vested in the general government, will convince every candid man, that if it is capable of being executed, all that is reserved for the individual states must very soon be annihilated, except so far as they are barely necessary to the organization of the general government. The powers of the general legislature extend to every case that is of the least importance — there is nothing valuable to human nature, nothing dear to freemen, but what is within its power. It has authority to make laws which will affect the lives, the liberty, and property of every man in the United States; nor can the constitution or laws of any state, in any way prevent or impede the full and complete execution of every power given. The legislative power is competent to lay taxes, duties, imposts, and excises; — there is no limitation to this power…
And are by this clause invested with the power of making all laws, proper and necessary, for carrying all these into execution; and they may so exercise this power as entirely to annihilate all the state governments, and reduce this country to one single government. And if they may do it, it is pretty certain they will; for it will be found that the power retained by individual states, small as it is, will be a clog upon the wheels of the government of the United States; the latter therefore will be naturally inclined to remove it out of the way. Besides, it is a truth confirmed by the unerring experience of ages, that every man, and every body of men, invested with power, are ever disposed to increase it, and to acquire a superiority over every thing that stands in their way. This disposition, which is implanted in human nature, will operate in the federal legislature to lessen and ultimately to subvert the state authority, and having such advantages, will most certainly succeed, if the federal government succeeds at all.
In a free republic…
Brutus #1 - Anti-federalist
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Declaration of Independence
Well, there is Article 4 Section 4. But given the way the Supreme Court rules these days, they could reinterpret the protection from invasion clause as an excuse to set up martial law.
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