Governor Janet Mills of Maine tries to capitalize on his moment under the national spotlight after he entered a public dust with President Donald Trump last week for the challenge of his state of his decree requiring that biological men who are ‘Identify as transgender remain outside female sports.
Friday, the pair entered a verbal skirmish White House After Trump declared the previous night that Maine would receive no federal funding before it begins to take action to prevent transgender women from participating in women’s sports teams.
“We are going to follow the law, sir. We will see you in court,” said Mills after Trump asked if she would comply with his order. “Take advantage of your life after the governor because I don’t think you are an elected official after,” Trump said.
A representative of the state of Maine confirmed to Fox News Digital that following the verbal skirmish on Friday, Mills began to send texts for mass collection to mass to Residents of Maine This cited his altercation with Trump, who played on national television.
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“On Friday during a Bipartite Governors ‘meeting, Donald Trump threatened to refuse federal funding for Maine’s schoolchildren unless we are in conformity with his personal requests,” Mills’ text campaign said. “He even said he was” Law ” Congress or states. I told him that we would see him in court. “”
Friday, the governor of Maine Janet Mills and President Donald Trump in the White House. (Getty Images)
Mulls continued saying that if Trump campaigned on the fall in prices of everyday Americans, he now uses his new power to “punish his enemies”.
“I want to clarify one thing: Maine will not be intimidated by the threats of the president,” said the campaign. “The work to repel against Trump and his program begins at the level of the state. Can you give $ 10 in Maine Democrat party To ensure that they have the resources to fight for our state? “”
The same week, Trump threatened to retain the financing of Maine so as not to comply with his executive decree on female sports, a transgender woman who competed as a man until June last year won the First place in the women’s pole jump to the inner championship of the Maine’s class B.
The main master body of Maine for secondary athletics said that they would recover from the law of the State, which makes it illegal to determine the admissibility to someone’s athletics on the basis of his gender identity. (Getty Images)
The Maine’s main director for secondary athletics, the Maine’s main association, Confirmed that he did not intend to follow Trump’s decree after his release. Rather, the association said that it would recover from the law of the State, which makes it illegal to determine the athletic eligibility of someone on the basis of their gender identity.
Sarah Perry, a lawyer for civil rights who has vast experience by arguing issues of title IX, said that in addition to Trump’s decree, Maine also flies up the directives of the Department of Education and previously established a precedent from a multitude of cases that challenged the old Title IX Regulation of President Joe Biden allowing sports eligibility to be determined by its favorite gender identity.
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“Within six weeks [after Biden’s Title IX ruling] We had 11 federal proceedings brought by 26 states, in addition to a handful of others – the Biden administration lost each time, “said Perry.
Perry added that in addition to the obvious risk of losing funding, these states are also opening up to federal investigations on title IX, which, she said, could potentially force them to comply with Trump’s demands.
Fox News Digital tried to contact the Governor’s office to comment but did not hear.
