Maine’s early positioning of itself as a state that would not comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order protecting women’s sports put it on the Trump administration’s radar in a big way, setting the stage for the confrontation that happened at the White House in late February between Trump and the state’s Democrat governor, Janet Mills.
And now, thanks in part to their continued defiance, along with Republican state lawmaker Laurel Libby, who has been determined to keep the Pine Tree State’s failure to protect women in the national spotlight, Maine has entered the FAFO stage.
As RedState reported, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Wednesday that the DOJ would be filing a lawsuit against Maine’s Department of Education on grounds that they are violating Title IX. The DOJ “will not sit by when women are discriminated against in sports….