Posted on 05/06/2016 2:05:50 AM PDT by reaganaut1
RALEIGH, N.C. — The Republican leaders of North Carolina’s General Assembly defiantly announced Thursday that they would not meet a Monday deadline to suspend or repeal a state law limiting bathroom access for transgender people, setting up a potential legal showdown over what has become one of the nation’s most explosive cultural issues.
“We will take no action by Monday,” said Tim Moore, the speaker of the State House of Representatives, referring to the deadline the Justice Department gave the state to tell federal officials whether the law would stand. “That deadline will come and go.”
Though Mr. Moore criticized the deadline as “unreasonable,” he also seemed to signal that Republicans might eventually agree to alter the law, which forbids people to use public building restrooms that do not match the gender listed on their birth certificates.
“The legislative process doesn’t work where a response can be given by just a few days,” he said, “so we’re going to move at the speed that we’re going to move at to look at what our options are at this point.”
His comments, as well as a private meeting later with a leading critic of the law, Mayor Jennifer Roberts of Charlotte, were indications that lawmakers here may be concerned about the potentially damaging consequences of keeping the law intact and defying the Justice Department.
The Obama administration contends that the law violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and its finding could push the federal government to withhold in federal aid.
The law puts more than $4.8 billion in federal funding to state and local governments at risk, according to a recent analysis by the Williams Institute, a research organization at the University of California, Los Angeles, law school that focuses on sexual orientation and gender identity law.
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In the next budget, the GOP should put in a rider that education funding cannot be withheld based on state policies on "transgender" bathrooms.
Waiting for one of the states that keep getting extorted to come out and tell the feds that they will no longer be paying any federal taxes, and then tell the citizens of said state that they no longer need to pay income tax.
The Republicans in NC won’t act when the deadline passes, but left open the door to caving in later.
Better yet close the DOE and return all control back to either the states or the counties.
Yes, the Federal funding has all kinds of strings attached to turn States into puppets. We are not The Puppet States of America.
This situation highlights the need to change the system and put the States back in charge. Repealing the 17th amendment would be a good start.
Get rid of the DOE both Education and Energy, get rid of the EPA, well I could go on but just the thought of them gone has given my brain freeze.
I agree, and get yourself a cup of coffee, it is too early for brain freeze.
In the next budget, the GOP should put in a rider that education funding cannot be withheld based on state policies on “transgender” bathrooms.
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Agree, in part. ....However, if Federal funding for education was eliminated then the tuition rates would be drastically lowered, since the colleges just keep raising the tuitions because they know they will get tax payer dollars.
Another declaration of independence might be in the cards too.
The Doj should be done away with. Civil rights should be greatly cut back on. It was always a scheme to take rights away from the majority.
More states need to tell the out of control feds to go to hell.
Just a hunch - but I get the feeling NC will vote overwhelming for Trump...
Make it a clean 10th Amendment test.
The Obama administration contends that the law violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and its finding could push the federal government to withhold in federal aid.
Every time the Feds do this there should be something in paces for States to withhold Fed tax dollars going to the Feds from that State. Past time the Feds learn the only money they get is what they take from the States in the first place.
Great post; thread.
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
There has been an uprising of the citizens in many states of the republic to make a non-politician, Donald J. Trump, the presumptive nominee. HOORAY patriots.
Developing...
The federal government is fascist and dictatorial.
I’ve tried to ignore this Insanity, so... Dumb question:
Doesn’t every state and locality allow businesses with public bathrooms to keep men out of the ladies rooms, and vice-versa? What is the problem with the NC law?
Is a law that says men should use the men’s room and women should use the women’s room really controversial? Has it really come to this? First whenever a woman advocates for single gender bathrooms, take her up on that by following her into the rest room when she leaves the microphone. And, you women, follow the men into the bathroom as well. It’s what they want, right?
I say NC should take a stand on this one. Screw the fed. And if federal funding is withheld, then NC should withhold paying federal income taxes. Then, do what the Dems do, break out the cameras and show everyone suffering because the schools are closed down. It goes both ways, you know.
Ultimately, if NC loses the case in court on some civil rights B.S. take compliance one step further by eliminating co-ed sports in high schools and colleges (No need to have two basketball teams, two soccer teams, two golf teams, etc). We are all equal!!! If the the feds force compliance, well....then comply totally!!! That’s how I would play it.
>In the next budget, the GOP should put in a rider that education funding cannot be withheld based on state policies on “transgender” bathrooms.
Yes, let’s niggle on the details of the already illegal/unconstitutional nature of 99.9% of the Fed. govt., instead of a full fire-sale at the DoEd, EPA, TSA, NSA, etc.
N.C. should come back and say, “You know what? There is no authority for A, B, C, D....YYY, ZZZ. We will be using the $$ from N.C. taxpayers for use *IN* N.C. as the People see fit. Here’s $20 for what N.C. ‘owes’ that are legitimate costs. F* off”.
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