Portland, Maine – A judge of the United States District Court ordered the Trump Administration to defrose federal aid to Maine to meet the requirements under a Law destined to prohibit discrimination based on sex In education.
The Judge of the John Woodcock District Court issued a temporary restriction order on Friday in a case presented by the State of Maine against the United States Department of Agriculture.
An email message seeking comments was sent on Saturday to the Department of Agriculture.
In question, it was the freezing of federal funds to Maine for certain administrative and technological functions in state schools. A letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, explained that the decision is due to a disagreement between state and federal governments on whether Maine was complying with Title IX, the federal law that prohibits discrimination in sex based on sex.
Shortly after the Secretary’s letter was sent, the Maine Department of Education could not access several federal funds for a state nutrition program, according to the written order of the Court.
He Dispute between Maine and Trump The administration has roots in the president’s impulse to deny federal funds to the State on transgender athletes. In February, the president and the governor left during a meeting at the White House. While the president discussed an executive order on transgender athletes, he looked for Mills and asked if she would fulfill him.
She told him that he would comply with state and federal law.
“You better meet,” Trump warned. “Otherwise, you don’t get federal funds.”
The governor replied that the administration would see in court.
Woodcock wrote that his order did not directly approach the largest dispute that formed the “impasse backdrop.”
The Order of the Court Maine officials arrived on the same day He said that the State would not comply with the prohibition of transgender athletes in high school sports following a Trump administration that discovered that the State violated antidiscriminate laws by allowing students to participate.
The United States Department of Education He said in March That an investigation concluded that the Maine Department of Education violated the Federal Law of Title IX by allowing transgender girls to participate in girls’ teams.
