Summary
Within hours of Maine Gov. Janet Mills publicly defying Donald Trump’s ban on transgender athletes in women’s sports, the U.S. Education Department launched a Title IX compliance probe targeting Maine’s transgender-inclusive policies.
Trump threatened to withhold federal funding if Maine did not comply. Mills firmly responded, “We’ll see you in court.”
She condemned the investigation as political retaliation and an unconstitutional use of federal power.
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey vowed to fight back.
LGBTQ+ advocates praised Mills for standing up for students, saying Trump’s bullying would be legally challenged.
I would fucking love for the Feds to try this with any blue state that is a net contributor (which is like, basically all of them). And then set up a (federally illegal, but we don’t care about that anymore apparently) interstate commerce and trade pact between blue states for mutual aid and economic assistance, since the federal government is currently busy destroying the federal government.
And then soldiers march on the blue states, and then the US balkanizes
You’re forgetting that state National guards exist
They get funding from the feds and can be federalized.
A governor would hypothetically have to convince them that the federalization order was unconstitutional.
Federalization can be countered by the federal government being so completely insane that the State Guard CO says “no, fuck you” and sides with the governor