Attorney General Pam Bondi has slammed Maine’s Governor, Janet Mills, amid the Trump administration’s ongoing legal battle with the State over its pushback on the “No Men in Women’s Sports” executive order.
In February, President Donald Trump signed an executive order “to protect opportunities for women and girls to compete in safe and fair sports,” criticizing “many educational institutions and athletic associations” that “have allowed men to compete in women’s sports.”
Maine’s Governor Mills and Trump got into a feisty debate at the Presidential meeting with Democratic and Republican governors at the White House over the trans athlete issue. “You better do it because you’re not going to get federal funding,” Trump said in the exchange, igniting his war with Maine’s leadership. “I’ll see you in court,” Mills responded.
The U.S. Department of Justice, led by Attorney General Bondi, has now made its move against Maine, launching a lawsuit and a scathing attack on Mills. Bondi, a key player in the Trump administration, said on “America’s Newsroom” that Mills was “very wrong” to dismiss the trans athletes in women’s sports issues because there were only two cases in the State.
Maine, led by Governor Mills, has refused to change the State’s policies to keep biological males out of girls’ and women’s sports, prompting the DOJ lawsuit. “First, to say only two is shocking. We gave two examples … First of all, these are boys in girls’ locker room,” Bondi said. “One is too many. It’s ridiculous what she said, and it doesn’t just affect one young woman – it affects the entire team. It affects the entire team, the entire sport within that school.
“These young women are not being able to compete because of a boy. The boy in 2024 came in 43rd in his category in track and field. When he competed in the women’s sport, he won. Governor Mills shouldn’t have said that, shouldn’t have done this, should be supporting women in the state of Maine. And we’re going to fight for them if they’re not.”
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Mills has responded to the lawsuit and cited a ruling by a federal judge last Friday to stop the U.S. Department of Agriculture from freezing funding to the State over its ongoing battle. “Today is the latest, expected salvo in an unprecedented campaign to pressure the State of Maine to ignore the Constitution and abandon the rule of law,” the statement read.
“This matter has never been about school sports or the protection of women and girls, as has been claimed, it is about states rights and defending the rule of law against a federal government bent on imposing its will, instead of upholding the law. Federal Judge Woodcock’s ruling of last Friday awarding the state a temporary restraining order reinforces our position that the federal government has been acting unlawfully.”
“For nearly two months, Maine has endured recriminations from the Federal government that have targeted hungry school kids, hardworking fishermen, senior citizens, new parents, and countless Maine people. We have been subject to politically motivated investigations that opened and closed without discussion, leaving little doubt that their outcomes were predetermined. Let today serve as warning to all states: Maine might be among the first to draw the ire of the Federal government in this way, but we will not be the last.”
- Source: NEWHD MEDIA
