CSPAN Attorney General Loretta Lynch To Respond To North Carolinas HB 2 Lawsuit May 10, 2016
Significant Law Enforcement action regarding North Carolinas public facilities, privacy and security act, also known as house bill 2. The North Carolina General Assembly passed house bill 2 in special session on march 23 of this year. The bill sought to strike down an antidiscrimination provision in a recently passed charlotte, North Carolina, ordinance, as well as to require transgender people in public agencies to use the bathrooms consistent with their sex as noted at birth rather than the bathrooms that fit their gender identity. The bill was signed into law that same day. In so doing, the...