Mar 29, 2016 ... NC Attorney General Roy Cooper said Tuesday that his office will not ... “We do  our job in this office,” Cooper said. ... “As our lawsuit highlighted yesterday,  House Bill 2 singles out the LGBT community for discrimination.
In lawsuits involving high-profile partisan issues, some state AGs choose to sit  out. ... Last year, Roy Cooper, then North Carolina's attorney general, decided not  to defend House Bill 2, which gutted anti-discrimination ... that the ballot  initiative's sponsors had no right to defend a state law if the state itself refused to  do so.
Mar 29, 2016 ... North Carolina attorney general Roy Cooper said in a Tuesday morning ... in the  complaint, Cooper called the bill "legislation that puts discrimination into law ...  Cooper said his office could not defend House Bill 2 because it is in direct ...  Cooper said in refusing to defend the law he is doing his job, because ...
Mar 29, 2016 ... NC Attorney General Roy Cooper told reporters Tuesday that his office ... Pat  McCrory urged Cooper to do his job. ... North Carolina Attorney General Roy  Cooper says he won't defend HB 2; McCrory says Cooper should 'fulfill his duty'  ... "Not only is this new law a national embarrassment, it will set North ...
Mar 29, 2016 ... Pat McCrory for governor, spoke out against House Bill 2 Tuesday morning  during a press conference. Cooper said his office, "will not defend the  constitutionality of the ... The lawsuit was filed Monday in U.S. District Court for  the Middle .... "Instead of misleading North Carolinians, he should do his job,  focus ...
Attorney General Roy Cooper refuses to do his job by not defending House Bill 2 in a lawsuit.