North Carolina just sued the federal government over its controversial bathroom law
North Carolina filed a lawsuit against the federal government Monday over its opposition to the state's controversial bathroom law, which requires transgender people to use public restrooms associated with their biological sex and prohibits local governments from banning anti-LGBT discrimination in public places.
The Justice Department gave North Carolina a Monday deadline to ditch the law, arguing that it violates the Civil Rights Act, or else potentially face losing access to hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding.
Gov. Pat McCrory (R) has repeatedly defended the law, even as high-profile businesses and artists have pledged to boycott the state. He told Fox News Sunday the federal government was "being a bully."
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