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You know how it’s going to be: no matter what Trump says or does, for the far left, it will be wrong, stupid, immoral and more, all rolled into one. And so when Trump demanded that Maine’s Democrat Gov. Janet Mills apologize for her initial defiance of Trump’s executive order banning men from participating in women’s sports, one thing was certain: Trump wasn’t going to get an apology. Instead, he was certain to get more self-righteous, passive-aggressive leftist posturing and cant, and now, as if on cue, Mills has delivered.
Some thought Trump’s demand for an apology was nothing more than an exercise in petulant narcissism, but it wasn’t. He asked Mills not only for “a full throated apology,” but also for “a statement that she will never make such an unlawful challenge to the federal government again.” The Democrats are deploying highly partisan, activist judges to block Trump’s deportation of criminal migrants, and as many have noted, the principle of judicial review doesn’t actually give any judge anywhere the right to bring the executive branch to halt because he doesn’t like what it’s doing.
In the same way, if Democrat governors start defying executive orders that they dislike, the nation will gave a real insurrection on its hands, not the Viking-horn, selfie-snapping that so terrifies and obsesses the left. And so Trump wanted Mills to go on record, once Maine capitulated to his executive order, stating that she would not challenge the authority of the nation’s chief executive.
It was a reasonable demand, and one made in service of national unity, but Mills responded in character. As she has done since the beginning of this controversy, she insisted that she was actually the one who was on the side of the law: “My issue is about the rule of law, pure and simple,” she insisted. “It’s not about transgender sports; it’s about who makes the laws and who enforces the laws. I read the Constitution. The Constitution says that the president, the chief executive, shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed. It doesn’t allow him to make laws out of whole cloth by tweet or Instagram post or press release or executive order.”
Funny thing: Mills never uttered such an objection when Barack Obama and Old Joe Biden’s autopen were firing off executive orders. In any case, if the president issues an executive order that is unconstitutional, that’s for the supreme court to decide, not the governor of Maine.
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࿗Infidel࿘ says
Trump should just hold up the money to Maine until she apologizes. It’s not like he has political supporters in Maine: all he has there is Susan Collins, who votes against him more than half the time. Humiliate the leaders of that state until they give him the apology that he deserves, and then release the money
Billy says
Trump should automatically penalize the States for one year of funding for blatantly breaking the law.
WCM says
Infidel nailed it.
Wellington says
Maine ain’t what it used to be. What a shame.
ME Infidel says
I was born and raised in Maine which is geographically beautiful but has succumbed to an invasion of Marxist and Sharia-compliant Muslim cockroaches. Every imaginable Left-wing agenda is being pushed by Mills and her sycophants. During the Covid-19 Scamdemic we had lots of NY and MA Dems move here bringing their rigid globalist ideology. It sounds like an exaggeration, but the state will never recover.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I believe all of New England is cooked. Far from adding Canada as a 51st state, I’d do some exchanges w/ them – take provinces like Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and maybe British Columbia, and in exchange, give them all the New England States, New York, Washington, Oregon, California, as well as New Mexico, Colorado, Maryland and Delaware
James Lincoln says
ME Infidel,
It’s too bad that Paul LePage did not win against Mills in 2022.
James Lincoln says
ME Infidel,
It’s too bad that Paul LePage did not win against Mills in 2022.
David M says
She doesn’t look very well as per the bags under her eyes. She looks like she needs more sleep.
JustJim says
Maybe it’s a pronoun controversy
as I first suspected, after looking at a picture of the Gov.
I try not to judge, but, that’s either a lot of hard miles, or the hormone shots just ain’t what they used to be (curse you big pharma).
David M says
Good point, not very feminine is she.
Peter Williamson says
Not one penny of federal funds until she complies
Dr K says
Stupid cunt
Typical Dem
Yawn zzzzzzzzzz