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 Agriculture Department (USDA) from freezing the State on the subject and investigations of the Department of Education and Human Services of President Donald Trump in the last seven weeks.
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“Today is the last except expected in an unprecedented campaign to press the State of Maine to ignore the Constitution and abandon the rule of law. This issue has never been about school sports or the protection of women and girls, as stated, it is about the rights of the states and defend the state of law against a federal government in the restructuring of its will, instead of being the life of the law of the law of the law of the law. Federal has been acting illegally, “said the statement.
“For almost two months, Maine has endured the recriminations of the federal government that have attacked children of famous schools, working fishermen, older people, new parents and innumerable people from Maine. We have been subject to politically motivated investigations that opened and closed without discussion, leaving their predetermined results. Not being the last.”
Mills also boasted of his political background in the statement.
“For decades, first as a district prosecutor, as attorney general, and now as governor, I have tirelessly fought for the rights of women and girls, for the health and well -being of boys and families, and defending the Constitution of Maine and the Constitution of the United States. My administration and the general lawyer of Maine will vigorously defend our State against the action announced today of the Department of Justice,”, the reading of the declaration of the declaration.
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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 nation. I think he cannot.”
The Department of Justice has accused the State of “the Federal Law against Federal Discrimination by enforcing policies that require girls to compete against boys in athletic competitions designated exclusively for girls,” according to a complaint obtained by Pak Gazette.
“By prioritizing gender identity over biological reality, Maine’s policies deprive the athletes of the girls of fair competition, they are denied the equal athletic opportunities and expose them to the greatest risks of physical injuries and psychological damage,” the complaint added.
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.
The State has also launched its own lawsuit against the Trump administration for the recent USDA cuts and a federal judge also ordered that financing 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 participation in Women and girls sports for biological females. This included 64% of independents and 66% of parents with children under 18.
