{"id":520,"date":"2016-05-09T21:52:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T03:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=520"},"modified":"2016-05-09T21:52:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T03:52:42","slug":"with-the-dojs-threat-to-north-carolina-feds-prove-they-arent-interested-in-states-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/05\/with-the-dojs-threat-to-north-carolina-feds-prove-they-arent-interested-in-states-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"With the DoJ&#8217;s threat to North Carolina, feds prove they aren&#8217;t interested in states&#8217; rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/529786292\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/529786292?et=oPjUQYrdQPFcr80YZ6lHfA&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=Nw8F38QiBkSi4NnJeZmUZbAzmD8JrVxWn3vc-EV8XxM=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The will of the people in North Carolina is not the priority of the federal government, if the Department of Justice\u2019s lawsuit against the state has anything to say about it.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Last week, the DoJ sent a threatening letter to Gov. Pat McCrory stating that the state is in violation of the federal Civil Rights Act if they didn\u2019t abandon the implementation of H.B. 2, which, among other things, dictates that males use men\u2019s rooms and females use women\u2019s rooms. McCrory stood up to the federal bullies on Monday by filing a lawsuit against Attorney General Loretta Lynch and her Justice Department in demand that \u201cclarity\u201d be brought \u201cto our national anti-discrimination provisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lynch countered with a lawsuit of her own, accusing McCrory, North Carolina legislatures, the state\u2019s Department of Public Safety, and the University of North Carolina of \u201cstate-sponsored discrimination\u201d against transgender individuals. Lynch stressed that the federal lawsuit seeks a statewide ban of H.B. 2\u2019s implementation, along with the strong-armed threat to curtail federal funds from the state\u2019s public safety department and UNC.<\/p>\n<p>This is exactly the kind of thing I warned about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/04\/big-business-and-big-government-threaten-north-carolina-residents-over-bathroom-law\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">last month<\/a> when I wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If the federal government does decide to carry through with their threats, they will be setting a precedent for years to come in every multi-faceted, grey area of politics \u2014 \u201cdo as we say, agree with us in every way, or you will be cut off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By forcing men and women to use the same bathrooms even after the people have spoken, the federal government will flush democracy down the toilet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And so here we have a literal \u201cLynch mob\u201d coming after the values of North Carolinians, coming after their constitutional rights and hindering public safety. Would that same \u201cLynch mob\u201d be as swift, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/434969\/department-justice-just-declared-war-north-carolina?target=author&amp;tid=1048\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">David French<\/a> wondered, to \u201cintervene to defend the state from liability the first time a woman or child is assaulted in a bathroom by a man who was granted a legal right to be there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the federal government is too drunk on its own power to ever do what\u2019s right.<\/p>\n<p><em>Join the only movement that can stop government overreach. Click the button below to support a Convention of States team in your state.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosaction.com\/fb_petition\/?recruiter_id=1822493\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/conventionofstates\/files\/2016\/03\/button-sign-petition-e1458102319281.png\" alt=\"button-sign-petition\" width=\"600\" height=\"150\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government is too drunk on its own power to defend constitutional rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2673,"featured_media":521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>With the DoJ&#039;s threat to North Carolina, feds prove they aren&#039;t interested in states&#039; 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