Trump Taps Lawyer Who Defended North Carolina’s Anti-LGBT Hate Law To Run DOJ’s Civil Rights Division

Talking Points Memo reports:

Donald Trump has tapped lawyer John Gore, who defended the University of North Carolina system in a legal challenge over the state’s anti-LGBT law, to be the deputy assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.

Gore is a partner at Jones Day, the Trump campaign’s law firm. Jones Day announced that Gore and several other lawyers with the firm will be joining the Trump administration. If Jeff Sessions is confirmed by the Senate as attorney general, he would oversee Gore.

Gore defended the University of North Carolina system in a lawsuit challenging the state’s HB2 law, which barred transgender people from using the public bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity. Gore withdrew as counsel on the case last week.

Gore has also worked to defend GOP redistricting plans in New York and Florida.