News Wrap: DOJ sues Maine over transgender athletes
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🗓️ 16 April 2025
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| 0:00.0 | In the day's other headlines, the Trump administration has sued the state of Maine for allowing transgender athletes to play in women's and girls sports. |
| 0:09.0 | Attorney General Pam Bondi and Education Secretary Linda McMahon say that amounts to discrimination based on sex violating Title IX. |
| 0:18.0 | Bondi also warned of other consequences. Maine's leadership has refused to comply at every turn, |
| 0:24.6 | so now we have no other choice. We are taking them to court. |
| 0:30.6 | And we are also considering whether to retroactively |
| 0:34.6 | pull all the funding that they have received for not complying in the past. |
| 0:41.8 | The lawsuit is the latest in a growing feud between the administration and Maine's Democratic governor, Janet Mills. |
| 0:48.5 | Back in February, she told President Trump, quote, |
| 0:51.1 | will see you in court when he threatened to pull federal funding for Maine at a White House event. |
| 0:56.6 | In a statement today, Mills said the issue was not about protecting girls, but, quote, about state's rights, |
| 1:02.7 | against a federal government bent on imposing its will instead of upholding the law. |
| 1:08.2 | Meanwhile, another Democratic-led state, California, is suing the Trump administration |
| 1:12.8 | over the president's sweeping tariff policy. Governor Gavin Newsom says Trump lacks the authority |
| 1:18.5 | to impose tariffs. From a farm in the state's Central Valley, Newsom said tariffs are already |
| 1:24.0 | driving up prices across California, the nation's largest importer. |
| 1:28.6 | Mr. Trump has used a 1977 law to justify his executive trade actions in a time of national |
| 1:34.9 | economic emergency. But the lawsuit argues that levying tariffs is not one of his powers, |
| 1:40.6 | and only Congress has the authority to impose them. |
| 1:44.5 | An army base in Georgia has taken back its old name, but military officials say it's |
| 1:49.6 | an honor of a different soldier than the Confederate General, who was once its namesake. |
| 1:54.6 | A ceremony today officially renamed Fort Moore Back to Fort Benning in honor of Army |
| 2:00.4 | Corporal Fred Benning, who served |
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