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President Barack Obama’s transgender-boosting administration “fails to grasp the serious privacy and public safety problems” caused by its effort to prohibit single-sex bathrooms and to urge individuals to decide which of the two sexes’ private bathrooms they desire to use at any given moment, says a legal brief prepared by North Carolina. North Carolina and its GOP governor, Pat McCrory, have filed the brief in United States District Court to answer the Obama administration’s lawsuit against the state’s privacy-protecting ‘HB2’ law, properly called the “Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act.” The Obama administration claims the law, passed in March, violates the civil rights of gay and transgender individuals. The State argues in its brief : As the Act’s text and legislative history make clear, the General Assembly was focused – not on disparaging transgender individuals – but rather on a commonsense concern for preserving everyone’s privacy and safety in intimate settings

A federal judge on Thursday refused to overturn the suspension of anti-gay Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore. Moore was suspended by a state commission after he defied the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on gay marriage. Specifically, Moore issued an order to Alabama probate judges instructing them that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage was still in effect despite the ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges. A long-time foe of marriage equality, Moore could be permanently removed from the bench because of his obstruction. U.S. District Judge Harold Albritton threw out Moore’s lawsuit against the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission with a brief order and an accompanying opinion that said the state judicial ethics case against the conservative Republican should move ahead without federal interference. The commission filed charges against Moore with the Alabama Court of the Judiciary, which has the power under state law to consider administrative cases brought against judges. Moore claime