The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) must resume federal education funding for Maine, according to a Friday ruling from George W. Bush-appointed U.S. District Court Judge John Woodcock, granting a request from Maine Attorney General (AG) Aaron Frey.
“This temporary restraining order confirms the Trump Administration did not follow the rule of law when it cut program funds that go to feed school children and vulnerable adults. This order preserves Maine’s access to certain congressionally appropriated funds by prohibiting an unlawful freeze by the administration. No one in our constitutional republic is above the law and we will continue to fight to hold this administration to account,” said AG Frey.
Frey filed a complaint against the USDA on April 7, demanding a temporary restraining order against the USDA’s decision to halt some federal education funds while the broader case is adjudicated.
The Maine Department of Education (MDOE) lost some of its USDA funding at the start of the month when the agency’s investigation determined that Maine is in violation of Title IX federal anti-discrimination law due to its continued refusal to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order demanding that males not be allowed to compete in girls’ sports.
According to the USDA, the freeze specifically targeted administrative and technological funds, and did not apply to nutrition programs that ensure needy children don’t go hungry. Frey’s lawsuit argued that the funding cuts did impact those programs, despite the department’s claim.
[RELATED: USDA Freezes Part of Maine’s Federal Funding over Transgender Athlete Policy…]
Woodcock, a senior judge in the Maine District Court, granted Frey’s request for a temporary restraining order against the USDA, requiring the department to resume all federal funding programs that had been frozen.
Though the order is temporary, it does not include an expiration date and specifies that it will remain in effect “until further order of the Court.”
The ruling argued that, though the USDA has authority to enforce Title IX compliance, it failed to follow the proper procedure for rescinding federal funds as laid out by Congress. Notably, the ruling only determined that the USDA failed to follow the proper procedure; it made no judgment on whether Maine actually did violate Title IX by allowing men into women’s sports.
As of Friday, federal courts have blocked or partially blocked five of President Trump’s executive orders not including Judge Woodcock’s injunction against the USDA partial funding freeze.
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Lawfare. !
All the democrats have left is Lawfare .
All Maine has is a crooked Governor , a bunch of transvestite activists , an attorney general who is a party puppet , a lockstep legislature , and a majority of voters who keep electing these socialist idiots.
Pray for a sweeping Republican victory in 2026 or we are done .
I don’t know about you guys, but I really enjoy watching boys beat the living tar out of girls in athletic endeavors. Apparently, Janet “SEE YOU IN COURT “ Mills does too.
Pete I beg you, pull all contracts from the two shipyards. When they bail that firebug guy out in Penn see if he’d like to come to maine for a while.
”A senior judge in the Maine District Court “ WOW Big Deal
Isn’t that convenient .Another lifelong democrat donor ,who’s hoping somebody might remember his name someday ,after a long an unimpressive career of judging DUI cases .
Mr important gets his fifteen minutes of fame and national notoriety .
Is he maybe a distant fraternity brother of Little Aaron Frey ?
“ Look Martha they said my name on Fox News ! “
Just the looney democrats goin’ judge shopping. You can bet the DOJ ain’t letting this go. Frey spending our money again on frivolous nonsense none of us would ever vote for. Of course absolutely none of this DEI bullshit ever shows up on the platforms these weasels run on at the legislature. On another note where the hell are the republicans? Is Laurel Libby the only one that speaks out?
Woodcock should make like the bird and take a migratory flight to Canada
How is a TRO with no expiration date legal asked the layman, and isnt that grounds for an appeal right there. Unless, of course, it goes in front of a hand picked tranny R.I. judge, then Never Mind !
My roomate’s mom-in-regulation makes usd eighty one each hour at the laptop . She has been fired for eight months but remaining month her paycheck turned into usd 17367 just operating on the pc for a few hours…..
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This is from the USDA, not the DOE, I think these are two different things. And since the University of Maine system is following the NCAA rules, the money can be allocated.
Hey Trump, whenever you wanna pick up and bear arms against the state of Maine, let us know. Meanwhile, you keep burning em out Mills.
…”failed to follow the proper procedure”…
grasping at paper straws.
Maybe said judge is “compromised”… it’s an ugly war out there, hard to know who’s on the up and up…. the scent of money is a dangerous thing.
If we do not force the libtards out. Maine will be a lost cause. We have already dug ourselves in deep. You cannot spend like a drunken sailor and expect everything to be ok. We need to reduce the libral numbers in Portland. Talk to friends get everyone you know to work against this corruption. It will actually be less work than moving.
Democrat cry babies running to a friendly activist judge to get their way. Appeal incoming and be prepared for the DOJ and DOE to take every last federal dollar. We can thank crackhead Mills and the liberal simpletons for this f’n nonsense. Does it ever end in Augusta?