There should be no federal funding of schools anyway.
True, but since there is , you gotta admit pretty chicken shit of the federal government to use it as a stick to prevent state laws they don't like.
And that is all this is, they don't LIKE the law. If they want to challenge it on a legal stance, then fine take NC to court, but what they are doing isn't much different than the black guy who fights with police who are trying to arrest him, rather than using the legal method provided for by the COTUS to deal with such things.
SCOTUS has already ruled that it's A-Okay for the federal government to black mail states by withholding the return of tax dollars. That's why we now have 50 states with a 21 year old minimum drinking age when many of them used to be 18.
True, but have you read that ruling? It's fucked up. Of the five points they set , one of them is the cutting of funding must not be coercive. Which is stupid because ANY time the federal government says "do this or else" That is coercion.
Here's the relevant portion of the ruling.
- The spending must promote "the general welfare";
- The condition must be unambiguous;
- The condition should relate "to the federal interest in particular national projects or programs";
- The condition imposed on the States must not in itself be unconstitutional; and
- The condition must not be coercive.
Now, please tell me how what some business does with their bathrooms relates to federal interests? It doesn't. That's obvious.
I would also argue that forcing businesses to allow transgenders into same sex only bathrooms is unconstitutional.
An honest federal judge would put a stay on the withholding of funds and make the federal government go through the courts to determine the legality of their order.