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I'm not super in favor of what North Carolina did, but what the President did was far worse.
You can not executive order or manipulate the DOJ or fund/not fund things like this. You just can't.
Could you imagine if Bush went around enforcing some right-wing agenda like gun rights on liberal states like New York and New England by threatening to withhold education funding? The liberals would **** a brick. Tibs would be up in arms (well, he'd wave a knife or something).
The bottom line is just like certain gun laws, the proper way to resolve North Carolina's law is through the judicial branch. A judge and only a judge can decide whether North Carolina's law is unconstitutional. NOT the President of the United States. If the DOJ wants to sue, go right ahead. That's their prerogative (even if I don't like it or think it's important enough), but the most likely way is for a transgender person who has been denied access to a bathroom of their choice or is punished under this law to sue North Carolina and have it progress through the court system as far as either party wants to take it.
That's how the NRA goes after every gun law they don't like. They have never gotten a sitting Republican President to threaten education funding for a gun issue.
Only in Barack Obama's ego driven mind of his "executive" powers would he open a can of worms like this. And this is ALL on him. Liberal America was already boycotting North Carolina. There was already lawsuits by the ACLU pending. Business pressure was pushing North Carolina to repeal the law. Obama could have let all that run it's course but no. He had to make this part of the executive branch of government even if it has nothing to do with it.
**** him.
You can not executive order or manipulate the DOJ or fund/not fund things like this. You just can't.
Could you imagine if Bush went around enforcing some right-wing agenda like gun rights on liberal states like New York and New England by threatening to withhold education funding? The liberals would **** a brick. Tibs would be up in arms (well, he'd wave a knife or something).
The bottom line is just like certain gun laws, the proper way to resolve North Carolina's law is through the judicial branch. A judge and only a judge can decide whether North Carolina's law is unconstitutional. NOT the President of the United States. If the DOJ wants to sue, go right ahead. That's their prerogative (even if I don't like it or think it's important enough), but the most likely way is for a transgender person who has been denied access to a bathroom of their choice or is punished under this law to sue North Carolina and have it progress through the court system as far as either party wants to take it.
That's how the NRA goes after every gun law they don't like. They have never gotten a sitting Republican President to threaten education funding for a gun issue.
Only in Barack Obama's ego driven mind of his "executive" powers would he open a can of worms like this. And this is ALL on him. Liberal America was already boycotting North Carolina. There was already lawsuits by the ACLU pending. Business pressure was pushing North Carolina to repeal the law. Obama could have let all that run it's course but no. He had to make this part of the executive branch of government even if it has nothing to do with it.
**** him.