Well, this explains the slow smirk Trump gave Pence just after Schumer mentioned transgender rights before the swearing-in…
I sure hope they come out soon and tell me which church to attend …
Sunday’s comin’ up quick –
Bleaching the Bill of Rights
Because national rates of suicide among transgender teens aren’t nearly high enough for Trump’s new and great America.
After the headline, the article isn’t very clear on if he was pro- or anti-HB2.
He represented the State of North Carolina who enacted the discriminatory law, which means he was defending the law and trying to keep it in place.
Civil Wrongs
Gore is the quintessential hired gun. He was arguing on behalf of the policy that was enacted in North Carolina.In sum,he was pro HB 2.
It’s possible (unlikely in my opinion, but possible) that he was personally opposed to NC HB-2, and was just doing his job. Lawyers at that level do not have to take every case that comes their way. He could have passed it on to a less senior colleague, or the firm could have passed on the case.
I think the evidence suggests that he is at best not opposed to laws like HB-2. It ought to DQ him from the post, but it won’t.
Slightly O/T
The gutting of the ACA has begun. The Orange Menace has signed an executive order eliminating the individual mandate.
getting right to work on the bigly unifying shit
For Trump, that’s a feature, not a bug.
It’s pretty clear the article is saying
Gore defended the University of North Carolina system in a lawsuit challenging the state’s HB2 law, which barred transgender people from using the public bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity.
The article is written rather poorly in laying out the sides in this case imo. I had to do a double-take myself in getting who was on which side of the argument when I read it, because it references this man “challenging” the law on behalf of University of NC system. If you have a good memory or your from NC its probably not a big problem knowing who all the players are in the case and where they stand.
The headline however makes it a lot simpler. HB2 is the dumb bathroom law, which is bad thing …and this lawyer helped defend this really dumb and bad law.
The real give-away is the photo of that ugly mug of Jeff Beauregard Sessions as the main signifier that this won’t be a good thing for Civil Rights.
If he defended the state he was on the pro side
Also, if he is with Jones Day, they are not exactly known as a bastion of liberalism.
The university of NC was opposed to the law. The artical says he represented UNC. Therefore he argued against the law. This is my reading of the article.
Mine too, but it certainly isn’t clear.