Minnesota Legal professional Basic Keith Ellison has filed a lawsuit towards President Donald Trump and Legal professional Basic Pam Bondi over the administration’s menace to withhold federal funding because of the state refusing to bar male athletes from girls’s and women’ sports activities.
Trump signed an govt order to guard girls’s and women’ sports activities on February 4.
On Tuesday, Bondi despatched out a letter warning states that weren’t in compliance that they had been prone to shedding funding.
“This Division of Justice will maintain accountable states and state entities that violate federal legislation,” Bondi wrote Tuesday in letters addressed to Maine Gov. Janet Mills, California Interscholastic Federation Government Director Ron Nocetti, Minnesota Legal professional Basic Keith Ellison, and Erich Martens, govt director of the Minnesota State Excessive College League, in response to a report from The Hill.
She continued, “The Division of Justice stands able to take all acceptable motion to implement federal legislation.”
“I hope that it doesn’t come to this. The Division of Justice doesn’t need to should sue states or state entities, or to hunt termination of their federal funds. We solely need states and state entities to adjust to the legislation. And federal legislation requires giving women an equal alternative to take part in sports activities and athletic occasions by making certain that women have to compete solely with different women, not with boys.”
Ellison responded to the letter by submitting the lawsuit and accusing the administration of “bullying.”
“I’m not going to take a seat round ready for the Trump administration to sue Minnesota,” Ellison stated throughout a press convention on Tuesday. “In the present day, Minnesota is suing him and his administration as a result of we won’t take part on this shameful bullying.”
Minnesota state Rep. Leigh Finke, who’s a “transgender” organic male, additionally spoke on the press convention. He argued that defending women’ sports activities is “cruelty” and “bigotry.”
“Right here, we don’t bend to cruelty,” Finke stated. “We don’t bow to bullying or bigotry. We lead with love and comply with the legislation. We are going to proceed to construct a state that honors and affirms the lives of all. We are going to proceed to construct a state that honors and affirms the lives of all. We have now chosen love, we’ve got chosen justice, and we proceed to decide on freedom, now and at all times.”
The extraordinarily far-left legal professional normal infamously shared a photograph of himself holding the Antifa Anti-Fascist Handbook in 2018, claiming that it will “strike concern” into President Trump.
Choose Susan Nelson, an Obama appointee recused herself from the case on Wednesday. The case has been assigned to Choose Patrick Schiltz, a George W. Bush appointee.
