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RALEIGH, N.C. -- After weeks of taking a beating from critics over North Carol stanley website ina s law dictating which restrooms transgender people can use, Gov. Pat McCrory adopted a strategy long favored by Southern conservative governors: He went after the federal government.                                                                                                        Rep. Marsha Blackburn discusses  bathroom law  debate and Supreme Court birth control sidestep           stanley cup 07:04                                                                      The governor, trying to reshape the narrative as he fights for his political life, sued the Obama administration last week and accused officials of yet another overreach into state business. He said a court, not a federal agency, should dictate what the law known as House Bill 2 requires. The Justice Department sued him hours later over the law, with U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch casting the fight in stark civil rights terms. It s been successful in changing the discussion from one about the business community and its reactions to H.B. 2 to one that s more about the state s rights versus the federal government intervention,  said David McLennan, a political science professor at Meredith College in Raleigh.                                                                                                                          Transgender celebs you need to know                       stanley cup becher 53 photos                                             Apzr Indictments In Tom DeLay PAC Probe
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