North Carolina Law Protects Women

In late March, the General Assembly of North Carolina enacted House Bill 2 (HB2), which regulates multiple-occupancy bathrooms and changing facilities in schools and other public buildings. The law requires people to use the bathroom or changing room of their “biological sex.” HB2 neither applies to private establishments nor prohibits the use of unisex, single-occupancy facilities.

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Give Garland a Hearing

In the wake of Justice Antonin Scalia’s untimely death, the ideological future of the court hangs in the balance. The court’s eight members are now split on many interpretive issues, which would make a new justice a key swing vote in certain cases. President Obama nominated Merrick Garland, from the Federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to fill Scalia’s spot. 

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