{"id":38293,"date":"2016-05-27T16:20:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T20:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/mississippi-out-atty-general-wont-allow-state-to-join-anti-transgender-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2016-05-27T16:20:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T20:20:49","slug":"mississippi-out-atty-general-wont-allow-state-to-join-anti-transgender-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/mississippi-out-atty-general-wont-allow-state-to-join-anti-transgender-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Out: Atty General Won\u2019t Allow State to Join Anti-Transgender Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Mississippi Out: Atty General Won\u2019t Allow State to Join Anti-Transgender Lawsuit<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/jim-hood.jpg?resize=734%2C1024\" alt=\"MS attorney general jim hood\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/jim-hood.jpg?resize=734%2C1024 734w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/jim-hood.jpg?resize=215%2C300 215w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/jim-hood.jpg?resize=768%2C1071 768w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/jim-hood.jpg?w=1468 1468w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>A few hours after Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant&rsquo;s announcement that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/05\/putin-elton-john\/\">he&rsquo;d join the lawsuit being brought by 11 states against the Obama administration over the administration&rsquo;s recent guidance on transgender students<\/a>,&nbsp;Mississippi Attorney General <a href=\"http:\/\/jimhood.org\/\">Jim Hood<\/a> said he would not represent the state.<\/p>\n<p>Hood, a Democrat committed to &ldquo;protecting the families of Mississippi,&rdquo; said he could not &ldquo;lend&nbsp;the name of the state of Mississippi to this lawsuit.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wdam.com\/story\/32073318\/mississippi-to-join-transgender-bathroom-lawsuit\">Via WDAM<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Gender_neutral.jpg?resize=146%2C300\" alt=\"Gender_neutral\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Gender_neutral.jpg?resize=146%2C300 146w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Gender_neutral.jpg?resize=768%2C1573 768w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Gender_neutral.jpg?resize=500%2C1024 500w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Gender_neutral.jpg?w=1482 1482w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 146px) 100vw, 146px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\">&ldquo;The governor has opted to join&nbsp;Texas in its&nbsp;broad lawsuit&nbsp;against the federal government in his capacity as governor alone,&rdquo; said Hood in a statement Thursday afternoon.&nbsp;&ldquo;Only the attorney general can represent our state in such lawsuits, which includes&nbsp;all branches of government and, more important,&nbsp;all of the people of our state. I cannot lend&nbsp;the name of the state of Mississippi to this lawsuit.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Last year, the Office of Attorney General&nbsp;joined a lawsuit&nbsp;in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to&nbsp;stop the Department of Justice from interfering with the way in which&nbsp;local schools operate their restrooms. For that reason,&nbsp;I chose not to join the Texas lawsuit,&rdquo; Hood continued.&nbsp;&ldquo;I also have&nbsp;concerns on issues of standing in the Texas suit&nbsp;because no federal funding&nbsp;has been withheld from any school.&nbsp; Moreover, I have a different legal opinion as to how the United States Supreme Court will finally decide the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Governor Bryant, who had already told the Mississippi Education Department to ignore&nbsp;the Obama administration&rsquo;s directive on transgender students a few weeks ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/im4phil\/photos\/a.187699847916281.44604.149191811767085\/1174205659265690\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\">said in a Facebook post yesterday<\/a> that&nbsp;the President&rsquo;s instruction was the &lsquo;latest example of federal overreach&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Mississippi Department of Education should disregard the Obama administration&#8217;s outrageous bathroom directive. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kS5kL0GRow\">pic.twitter.com\/kS5kL0GRow<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Phil Bryant (@PhilBryantMS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhilBryantMS\/status\/731208830235873280\">May 13, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/hrc-analysis-lawsuit-attempts-to-gut-federal-non-discrimination-protections\">In a statement released Wednesday<\/a>, The Human Rights Campaign said the &ldquo;reckless and shameful lawsuit&rdquo; attempts to &ldquo;gut federal non-discrimination protections for <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Mississippi AG Jim Hood&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AGJimHood\/\">Facebook page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Illustration by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=46530605\">Don Clark via Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/05\/mississippi-transgender-2\/\">Mississippi Out: Atty General Won&rsquo;t Allow State to Join Anti-Transgender Lawsuit<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/\">Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=It-qzZ38ZoM:qo4X-jCKXrQ:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=It-qzZ38ZoM:qo4X-jCKXrQ:I9og5sOYxJI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=I9og5sOYxJI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=It-qzZ38ZoM:qo4X-jCKXrQ:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=It-qzZ38ZoM:qo4X-jCKXrQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?i=It-qzZ38ZoM:qo4X-jCKXrQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=It-qzZ38ZoM:qo4X-jCKXrQ:cGdyc7Q-1BI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=cGdyc7Q-1BI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=It-qzZ38ZoM:qo4X-jCKXrQ:YwkR-u9nhCs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=YwkR-u9nhCs\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~4\/It-qzZ38ZoM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~3\/It-qzZ38ZoM\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\">feeds.towleroad.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~3\/It-qzZ38ZoM\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mississippi Out: Atty General Won\u2019t Allow State to Join Anti-Transgender Lawsuit A few hours after Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant&rsquo;s announcement that he&rsquo;d join the lawsuit being brought by 11 states against the Obama administration over the administration&rsquo;s recent guidance on transgender students,&nbsp;Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said he would not represent the state. Hood, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/mississippi-out-atty-general-wont-allow-state-to-join-anti-transgender-lawsuit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mississippi Out: Atty General Won\u2019t Allow State to Join Anti-Transgender Lawsuit<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mississippi Out: Atty General Won\u2019t Allow State to Join Anti-Transgender Lawsuit - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/mississippi-out-atty-general-wont-allow-state-to-join-anti-transgender-lawsuit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mississippi Out: Atty General Won\u2019t Allow State to Join Anti-Transgender Lawsuit - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mississippi Out: Atty General Won\u2019t Allow State to Join Anti-Transgender Lawsuit A few hours after Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant&rsquo;s announcement that he&rsquo;d join the lawsuit being brought by 11 states against the Obama administration over the administration&rsquo;s recent guidance on transgender students,&nbsp;Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said he would not represent the state. 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