Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey took a weld by the Trump administration on Friday when a federal judge gave up that a financing freezing to the state must be abolished as the state refuses to change its policies regarding transking athletes in girls and women’s sports.
District Judge John Woodcock issued the temporary restriction order that was suspended in the middle of President Donald Trump’s fight with Maine Gov. Janet Mills about transient athletes. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the financing freezing last week.
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Maine Gov. Janet Mills speaks during the governor’s work session in the state’s dining room in the White House in Washington, DC, Friday 21 February 2025. (Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“This temporary restriction order confirms that the Trump administration did not follow the rule of law as the reduced program funds that go to feed school children and vulnerable adults,” Frey’s statement read. “This order retains Main’s access to certain congress evidence by prohibiting an illegal freezing of the administration.
“No one in our constitutional republic is over the law and we will continue to fight to hold this administration for accounting.”
The USDA “must immediately release and release to the state Maine Maine any federal funding that they have frozen or failed or refused to pay because of the state of Maine’s alleged failure to comply with the requirements of section IX,” Woodcock’s decision read.
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The government Janet Mills will attend an event on March 11, 2022 in Augusta, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
The administration was also “excluded from freezing, ending or otherwise interfering with the state of Maine’s future federal funding for alleged violations of title IX without complying with the legally required procedure.”
Maine has refused to comply with Trump’s executive order to ban biological men from girls and women’s sports. Trump initially promised to reduce federal funding to the state if it was to refuse to comply with the order during a February 20th.
Maine -officials brought a lawsuit against the USDA on Monday following the agency’s decision to freeze the financing to the state.
The state accused the USDA of “detention of funding used to feed children in schools, childcare centers and programming after school and disabled adults in a total environment,” an argument that the judge agreed. The judge noted that the freezer was due to violations of title IX but the limited ability to “give[e] Meals for children and vulnerable adults. “
Maine State Capitol is photographed in Augusta, Maine. (Eyecrave Productions Via Getty Images)
After Trump signed an executive order to ban trans athletes from women’s and girls’ sports on February 5, Maine was one of the many states that openly defied the order.
