After Maine Gov. Defies rump, Feds Hit Her with Investigation

[struggle4progress]

Story by Jack Davis • 1d

A federal investigation of Maine’s refusal to comply with Title IX is underway after Maine’s governor told President Donald Trump the state would continue rejecting his executive order on keeping men out of women’s sports.

At a Friday meeting with governors at the White House, Trump and Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills clashed, according to a video posted on X.

Trump was speaking about his order to ban men from women’s school sports when he called out, “Is Maine here, the governor of Maine?”

After Mills responded, Trump asked, “Are you not going to comply with it?” ...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/hours-after-maine-gov-defies-trump-to-his-face-feds-hit-her-with-investigation/ar-AA1zAfxc?cvid=d741b29c917a4b6198d5b8c660006242&ei=8

[Klarkashton]

1. Nothing like targeted investigation right?

[Sneederbunk]

3. I think it's called weaponizing the DOJ.

[Klarkashton]

7. That's what maga called it. Now it's called justice.

[Wonder Why]

2. The governor should file a suit against the DoJ. Eventually, SCOTUS will have to address it and allowing

such things will make their lives miserable.

[elleng]

6. MISERABLE!!!!!

[B.See]

4. Straight up NAZI sht.

Expect more of the same.

[Norbert]

5. We had four years of MAGAs parroting "Weaponization of Government"

by Biden.

Now look what the MAGAs are doing one month in.

[ReRe]

11. Yep.

They parroted it because they were the inventors of it! Whoever in the world could have thought up something like that?
Only someone who hated the law, that's who. The only people who hate the law are the people who break the law.
Seriously, only a law breaker could think up such shite! "Weoponization of Government" my ass! I bet you it was djt himself who first muttered the words.

[Quiet Em]

8. This is so outrageous

And the article states that a high school in Maine has now increased security because of the con's bullshit.

[Celerity]

9. The Western Journal is a RW MAGA new source. Its founder also founded the RW political action committee Citizens United

of the disastrous SCOTUS decision fame.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Western_Journal

The Western Journal, previously known as Western Journalism, is an American conservative news and politics website based in Phoenix, Arizona. It was founded by political consultant Floyd Brown in 2008. Western Journalism founder Floyd Brown also founded the political action committee Citizens United and served as executive director of the Young America's Foundation. The site was acquired by Liftable Media, Inc. in 2014, which also owns the political opinion websites Conservative Tribune and Liberty Alliance, and the Christian website Liftable.com. It also owns and provides content to dozens of conservative Facebook pages.

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Western Journalism previously stated it featured "conservative, libertarian, free market and pro-family writers and broadcasters" and seeks to provide "God-honoring" content. In practice, according to The New York Times, this philosophy, in which "tradition-minded patriots face ceaseless assault by anti-Christian bigots, diseased migrants and race hustlers concocting hate crimes," results in "a torrent of sensationalized, misleading, or entirely made-up stories, often aimed at Muslims and immigrants." Because of negative rulings by fact-checking sites and user trust surveys, Western Journalism was blacklisted by Google and Apple News, and by 2017 its Facebook traffic declined to near zero.

In February 2019, The Western Journal published an article which alleged "Climate Change 'Heat Records' Are a Huge Data Manipulation." Scientists criticized the article, saying it was deceptive and that it contradicted existing research. The Western Journal subsequently retracted the article.

In November 2021, a study by the Center for Countering Digital Hate described The Western Journal as being among "ten fringe publishers" that together were responsible for nearly 70 percent of Facebook user interactions with content that denied climate change.

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https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/western-journalism/

[Silent Type]

10. Hoping DOJ's investigation finds they can't do much other than harass her. Though that's bad enough.

[vapor2]

12. Just fuck these bullies

I am sick of their threats, their lies, their grifting, their revenge and anything else. Most of all sick of them taking from us all to support their billionaire tax cut. Their GREED and REVENGE have no bottom.