“We’ll see you in court,” Maine Gov. Janet Mills told President Donald Trump at a Feb. 21 gathering of the National Governors Association at the White House.
But Mills, a Democrat, should be careful what she wishes for, because Trump wasn’t bluffing when he said Mills and Maine would be the big losers if she refused to comply with his Feb. 5 executive order conditioning receipt of federal education dollars on prohibiting transgender faux females from invading girls and women’s interscholastic athletics.
Trump disputed Mills’ assertion that she is “complying with state and federal law” and reminded her that his office represented that federal law.
“Good. I’ll see you in court,” Trump retorted. “I look forward to that. That should be a real easy one.”
It was not an idle threat. Within hours of the White House event, Trump ordered his…
