North Carolina legislators failed to repeal HB2, the controversial "bathroom bill," Wednesday night. The failure is a setback for Gov.-elect Roy Cooper, who had announced the imminent repeal of the law on Monday. For now, the legislation, considered my some to be discriminatory toward transgendered persons, remains law. Cooper, a Democrat who defeated incumbent Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, had announced that the law would be scrapped in special session this week, after the city council of Charlotte, the state's largest city, voted to repeal the ordinances that originally triggered the statewide legislation's passage. "There was an agreement among everybody. That's why we called a special...
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