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Asa pushing for discrimination-light in response to 'bathroom bill.' It's still discrimination.

John Brummett reports that Gov. Asa Hutchinson wishes the legislature wouldn't pass a "bathroom bill" to discriiate against transgender people. That wish falls far short of a belief in equal rights for LGBT people, however.
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Mayor stands fast in Charlotte against LGBT bias law like Arkansas's

Charlotte stands firm against North Carolina push for bogus "compromise" intended to save face for the state on its anti-LGBT law.
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Attorney General Rutledge fights for LGBT discrimination

Article notes Attorney General Leslie Rutledge's legal pressure to strike down a Fayetteville ordinance that prohibits discrimination, including on sexual orientation and gender.

Arkansas attorney general weighs in on North Carolina law

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge can't be bothered with illegal payday lending in Arkansas, among other pressing business not worthy of her time such as malfeasance of office by Secretary of State Mark Martin in abetting the illegal removal of eligible voters from the voter rolls. But she has plenty of time to pursue a national right-wing agenda.
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Federal court in North Carolina blocks discriminatory anti-LGBT bill

A federal court has blocked the University of North Carolina from enforcing the anti-LGBT North Carolina law intended to block transgender people from using bathroom and other facilities for their gender identity.

Federal court strikes down voter ID law in North Carolina

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit today struck down North Carolina's new voter identification law with a sharply-worded criticism of the lower court that upheld the law, saying it "chose not to see the forest for the trees," and of the North Carolina legislature, saying its intent to discriminate was clear.
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Shades of George Wallace: North Carolina begins massive resistance to LGBT equality

Here's North Carolina's answer to the federal government's insistence that it not enforce a new LGBT discrimination law that includes bars on transgender use of public restrooms according to t sexual identity. It will sue the federal government to protect the state's insistence on legal discrimination.

Feds go after North Carolina on LGBT discrimination law

Big development: The federal Justice Department has told North Carolina that, if it chooses to comply with the state's new anti-LGBT law, will be violating the U.S. Civil Rights Act and could cost the state millions in federal funding.
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North Carolina governor responds to backlash on discrimination law

Rocked by negative business and other fallout from North Carolina's new gay discrimination law, Gov. Pat McCrory issued an executive order today aimed at mitigating some of the damage. It doesn't do much. And Ernest Dumas thanks God for Mississippi, with a discrimination law even worse than Arkansas's, both reminiscent of the days when religion was used to justify racial discrimination.

Anti-LGBT states get some tourism advertising

Funny or Die does a send-up tourism add for Mississippi after its adoption of a new law aimed at affording legal cover for those who want to discriminated against LGBT people.Reminder: Arkansas got there first,
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North Carolina attorney general stands up for Constitution

North Carolina has an attorney general worthy of the office — he won't defend "embarrasing" and discriminatory bathroom law aimed at transgender people.

AFP says the faulty voter registration mailers it distributed in North Carolina originated in Arkansas

Remember the bad voter registration information sent to hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians by Americans for Prosperity? Apparently, the mailers drew information from a similar effort by AFP's affiliate here, which sent information to "potential new voters in Arkansas." AFP says the bad information in NC was just a mix-up, and apologizes, but that leaves a larger question: What exactly is AFP sending to those likely new voters in Arkansas, and why?
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