The governor of Maine, Janet Mills, has responded to the lawsuit that has been filed against her state by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) for allowing Trans athletes to compete in girls’ sports.
Mills’s office issued a statement on Wednesday, hours after the lawsuit was announced by Attorney General Pam Bondi at a morning press conference.
The declaration refers to a decision of a federal judge last Friday to prevent the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) from freezing the State on the subject and investigations of the Department of Education and Human Service of President Donald Trump.
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“Today is the last expected save in an unprecedented campaign to press the state of Mainore of the Constitution and abandon the rule of law. This issue never has school sports or the protection of women and GADLs, since the hashes that the Government of Estering of hardening is when imposing its will, in case of reaching the law.
“For almost two months, Maine has endured the recriminations of the federal government that has attacked children from the hanging school, working fishermen, older people, new parents and innumerable people from Maine. We have open, few doubts that their results were predetermined.
Mills also boasted of his political background in the statement.
“For decades first as a district prosecutor, as a general prosecutor, and now as governor, I have tirelessly fought for the rights of women and girls, for the health and well -being of the Constitution and families, and defending the Constitution and the families of maintenance and the family of the constancy of the constancy and the hungry, and defense the constancy of the constitution of the constitution of the constitution of the constitution of most of the major They defend most of the main one, and defend the main of the main ones of most of the main one.
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“As I said before, it is not just who can compete in the Atlético field, it is if a president can force compliance with his will, without taking into account the rule of law that governs our. I think he cannot.”
The Department of Justice has been accused of the State of “the Federal Law against Federal Open and Challenging Discrimination by enforcing the policies that require girls to compete against boys in athletic competitions designated to Birls Octaintas, hanging.”
“By prioritizing gender identity over biological reality, Maine’s policies deprive the athletes of girls from fair competition, they are denied the same athletic opportunities and expose them to the successful risks of physical injuries and psychological damage,” Theaint.
The complaint said that the United States will seek “a ruling that grants a judicial order and damages the violations of the accused of Title IX and the Federal Financing Contracts he signed promising to comply with Title IX and its implementation regulations.”
The announcement of the demand occurs almost two months after an infamous hostile exchange between Trump and Mills in a bipartisan meeting of Governors of the White House on February 21. The exchange ended with Trump and Mills pronouncing the phrase “seeing it in court” after Mills insisted that his state would refuse to fulfill his order.
Now, the Trump administration has fulfilled its vote of taking the issue to court.
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The State has also launched its own demand for the Trump administration on the recent USDA cuts and a federal judge also ordered that the funds cannot freeze.
TO Survey The coalition of American parents discovered that about 600 registered voters of Maine, 63% said that school sports participation should be based on biological sex, and 66% agreed that it is “just restricting women’s sports to biological women.”
The survey also found that 60% of residents would admit a voting measure that limits separation in Women and girls sports for Biological females. This included 64% of independents and 66% of parents with children under 18.
Ryan Gaydos of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
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