Brace for spit-take! Josh Earnest's spin on DOJ action against North Carolina sets off BS detectors

Doug P. | 3:29 PM on May 05, 2016

Good thing I wasn't taking a drink when I read this. https://t.co/4NvdAkKgUc

— BT (@back_ttys) May 5, 2016

The U.S. Justice Department is challenging North Carolina’s HB2, the so-called “bathroom law,” saying it is in violation of the Civil Rights Act:

The federal letters said, “Access to sex-segregated restrooms and other workplace facilities consistent with gender identity is a term, condition or privilege of employment. Denying such access to transgender individuals, whose gender identity is different from their gender assigned at birth, while affording it to similarly situated non-transgender employees, violates Title VII.”

The Justice Department letters ask for a response by May 9 on “whether you will remedy these violations of Title VII.”

At today’s White House briefing, Josh Earnest again went out of his way to put his comedy stylings on full display:

Josh Earnest says Justice Dept. threat to NC was “independent” of the White House

— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) May 5, 2016

.@PressSec on @TheJusticeDept HB2 NC letter "was made independent of any kind of political interference and direction from the White House"

— Juliet Eilperin (@eilperin) May 5, 2016