GOP Sen. Leader Phil Burger doubling down on HB2.

After North Carolina Democratic lawmakers filed an HB2 repeal bill Monday, the immediate question became whether it will even get a hearing in the GOP-led General Assembly. Colin Campbell reports:

Rep. Darren Jackson of Knightdale is the primary sponsor of House Bill 946. Jackson and his co-sponsors said they do not have any Republican support for their bill and haven’t talked with the chamber’s leaders about getting it a committee hearing this session. “It is never too late to do the right thing,” Jackson said. “It is time for the governor and the General Assembly to make it clear that we are focused on creating jobs.”

Jackson anticipated other bills would be introduced that offer partial fixes to HB2, but he stressed that the entirety of the discriminatory law needed to be scrapped in order to stem the economic fallout.

But Republicans remain unmoved, seemingly perfectly happy to watch the economic tumult continue. State Senate Leader Phil Berger thumbed his nose at detractors last week, saying he would not "give in to the demands of multi-millionaire celebrities pushing a pet social agenda, liberal newspapers like the New York Times, [or] big corporations..." You get the idea—he's not budging no matter what kind of consequences the law has on the state.