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Maine and Gov. Janet Mills saw Trump in court and won [1]
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Date: 2025-04-15
It's a small victory, but it is a victory. There have been many attacks from different ditections. Social Security, USDA, HHS, DOJ. All because of that one high school trans pole vaulter.
U.S. District Court Judge John Woodcock granted a temporary restraining order against the USDA over funds frozen from child nutrition programs, according to Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey. The USDA unconvincingly claimed innocence.
The USDA announced the freeze after an April 2 letter to Mills from USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins. The freeze was due to the Governor's response in "defiance of federal law."
It's not a "federal law." It's an executive order that has the effect of a law, but without any intervention of Congress. Trump's EO is contradicted by civil rights laws that Congress has passed. When an executive order conflicts with a law passed by Congress, Congress takes top priority. Executive orders are meant to implement existing laws, not create new ones.
The problem is that Trump has redefined the words discrimination and civil rights. So now he gets to say that DEI is discrimination, and that by allowing trans to participate in women's sports, women's civil rights are being violated. Only the courts can take that away from Trump.
There was also the Social Security contract that allowed new Social Security numbers to be issued electronically by the hospital reporting a birth, and keeping deaths recorded also. Sen Susan Collins got that reinstated after days of haggling.
So, there's two small victories so far. There's still a lot of "investigations", which should be called witch hunts, for Title IX DEI discrimination, now focused on grants and contracts to the Maine University System. The investigations are also going after the Maine Principals' Association, as the trans girl is in high school, and the government says that doesn't make any difference. The schools are still in Maine.
That poor trans at Greely High School caught in the middle on this.
The Trump administration is still planning to pull all federal education funding from Maine. They could do what has already been done, which is complete an investigation without any interviews, evidence gathering or giving Maine a chance to respond. They just do judge, jury and executioner first, and then Maine has to respond with a lawsuit to fix things.
Here's the last report of the attacks on Maine with all the agencies involved.
Gov. Mills will never give Trump the "full throated apology" he demanded, and that enrages him even more. Good for her.
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