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The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Maine state legislature to revoke its censure of GOP state representative Laurel Libby on Tuesday. Libby has been censured since Feb. 15 for a social media post that identified a transgender Maine high school athlete who won a girls' pole vault competition. In a 7-2 decision, the court ruled that Libby's entitlement to relief from the censure is "indisputably clear." The GOP lawmaker celebrated the Supreme Court decision in an X post. "This is a victory not just for my constituents, but for the Constitution itself. The Supreme Court has affirmed what should NEVER...

PORTLAND (WGME) -- The Supreme Court has ordered the Maine House to restore the vote of censured Representative Laurel Libby (R-Auburn). Libby was censured by the Maine Legislature after she posted the name and image of a transgender minor online. As part of the censure, she could not speak or vote on the House floor until she apologized, which she refused to do. In her lawsuit before the Supreme Court, Libby didn't contest the censure but the punishment, saying it violated her First Amendment rights and those of her constituents. Maine’s attorney general filed new paperwork both in district court...

PORTLAND, Me. — Miss Congeniality, Jordon Hudson is not. Bill Belichick’s 24-year-old girlfriend fell short yet again in the Miss Maine beauty pageant, placing third Sunday — and she couldn’t hide her disappointment. Hudson — who came in second in the contest last year — once again didn’t have quite the stuff to strut all the way to the crown.

Angus King III is following in his father’s footsteps and running to be governor of Maine. King is the son of Angus King, who served as governor of Maine from 1995 to 2003 and now serves as the independent senator from the Pine Tree State. King III is planning on running as a Democrat, hoping to replace embattled Democrat Gov. Janet Mills. “I’ve spent my life building and making things that really help people,” he said, according to WGME. “Now, I’m running for governor to build a better Maine,” he continued, “where it’s easier to start and grow a small...

Former Maine Gov. Paul LePage, who once described himself as “Donald Trump before Donald Trump became popular,” announced Monday that he was running for Congress. “The entrenched interests are fighting President [Donald] Trump at every turn as he works to fix problems,” the former two-term Republican governor said on social media. “We need more straight talk to help take back Washington.” A former businessman turned outspoken and divisive political figure, LePage is seeking the 2nd District seat represented by Rep. Jared Golden, one of 13 House Democrats to hold seats that Trump carried last fall. In fact, voters in the...

A Maine teacher has called for President Donald Trump and members of his administration to be killed, according to news reports. JoAnna St. Germain, an English teacher at Waterville Senior High School, made Facebook posts on Tuesday calling on the Secret Service to "take out every single person who supports Trump's illegal, immoral, unconstitutional acts." "You are the ones with power. Coordinate," she said. "Look at the sycophants and give them what they're asking for. "Every other country sees what's happening and they are taking stands. If you step up, we can avoid a civil war," she added. St. Germain...

The Democrat and RINO effort to blow up Trump’s global tariffs suffered an embarrassing failure in the Senate this evening after two senators failed to vote. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Senator Rand Paul (RINO-KY) had sponsored a resolution that would have terminated ALL of Trump’s tariffs, including those on America’s top adversary, China. The vote deadlocked 49-49, meaning it failed by one vote. But there were three Republicans who voted to stab Trump in the back and end the global tariffs: Rand Paul of Kentucky Susan Collins of Maine Lisa Murkowski of Alaska Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Senator...

A teacher in Maine repeatedly called for the killing of President Trump and his supporters in a shocking slew of social media posts - even acknowledging that her boss 'will have to fire me' over the call to violence. JoAnna St. Germain, an English teacher at Waterville Senior High School, took to Facebook to share her inflammatory thoughts on how to 'take out' the president. 'The Secret Service has the perfect opportunity, if they choose to step up and take it,' she wrote. 'You are the ones with power. Coordinate. Take out every single person who supports Trump’s illegal, immoral,...

… The measure would allow the Maine Turnpike Authority, along with the Department of Transportation and Department of Public Safety, to establish a “pilot program” to operate three work zone surveillance systems on Maine highways. The surveillance systems would be used to record images of license plates on motor vehicles traveling through the work zone at a rate of speed more than 11 miles per hour above the posted work zone speed limit. If you get caught speeding in the work zone, your first violation would result in a written warning. Upon second and subsequent violations, you’ll get a fine...

A federal judge has ruled against censured Maine State Rep Laurel Libby, siding with State House Speaker Ryan Fecteau. Libby filed a federal lawsuit after she was censored in the House chamber over a social media post that depicted a high school trans-identified male winning the state championship, despite President Donald Trump’s order banning trans-identified males competing in women’s sports. District Judge Melissa R. DuBose wrote in her ruling, "After carefully considering the case law, the details presented by the parties about the House governing rules, and the process by which the House adopted the Resolution and imposed the censure...

During a portion of an interview with Portland, Maine ABC affiliate Channel 8 WMTW released on Thursday, Attorney General Aaron Frey (D) said that the opposition to allowing biological men to play women’s sports “is driven, in large part, by a lot of lack of information or misinformation.” Frey stated, “I think some of the public sentiment is being driven by a lot of half-truths or untruths, right? There have been transgender athletes — student athletes in Maine for years, for years and years and years. Safety, privacy have always been a consideration, not just for transgender students, by the...

Bobby Charles, a lawyer who served under several former Republican presidents, announced Tuesday he will run in the 2026 race to become Maine’s next governor. Although his name is not broadly known in his home state, Charles has increasingly popped up as a rumored gubernatorial candidate in Republican circles while making radio and Fox News appearances. The Maine Republican Party also briefly floated him last year as someone to run against Democratic Attorney General Aaron Frey before lawmakers decided on another candidate. His entrance into the race to succeed Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat termed out of office next year,...

Governor Janet Mills (D-ME) said Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that President Donald Trump is not the law and his administration’s actions were “not rational” while discussing their transgender athletes dispute. Mills said, “Very unexpectedly the president called on me to answer a question that was unrelated to the topic at hand. I’ve been to the White House and talked to President Trump before, President Biden, President Obama, several presidents, always been a good conversation, exchange of ideas. This was different, very different, and when he said, ‘I am the law,’ basically, ‘we are the law,’ my jaw dropped, and...

A federal judge said the Trump administration must lift their freeze on federal funding to Maine. The ruling reads that the USDA "must immediately unfreeze and release to the state of Maine any federal funding that they have frozen or failed or refused to pay because of the state of Maine's alleged failure to comply with the requirements of Title IX." The administration is also "barred from freezing, terminating, or otherwise interfering with the state of Maine's future federal funding for alleged violations of Title IX without complying with the legally required procedure." The USDA announced the funding freeze and...

The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) initiated an investigation into the Maine Department of Education (MDOE) on Friday for concealing children’s gender transitions from parents in a potential violation of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). “We have heard disturbing reports that dozens of Maine school districts allow for schools to create “gender plans” that support a student’s ‘transgender identity’ and then hide those plans from parents, claiming they don’t fall under education records. That is unacceptable and unlawful,” said Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, announcing the investigation.

President Trump on Saturday demanded a “full-throated” apology from Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) before his administration can settle its dispute with the state for defying his executive order banning transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports. The University of Maine System (UMS) backed down earlier this week and promised to follow the executive order on transgender competition, but Trump suggested the dispute over federal funding won’t be resolved until Mills’ mea culpa. “While the State of Maine has apologized for their Governor’s strong, but totally incorrect, statement about men playing in women’s sports while at the White House House...

Last month, Donald Trump signed an executive order banning biological males from competing in girls' and women's sports, restoring Title IX to its original meaning. It was a move that has forced many institutions to comply with biological reality. The NCAA capitulated, but Democrats in blue states are resisting. The Trump administration made its position very clear: comply with Title IX directives or risk losing federal funding. Maine's leftist Gov. Janet Mills defiantly declared to Trump at a meeting of governors last month, "We'll see you in court." Trump simply replied, “I look forward to it.”Maine has officially caved to...

Any false claim by the UMaine can, and will, result in onerous and even potentially criminal financial liability,' the USDA warned.. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday that the University of Maine System (UMS) has agreed to comply with President Donald Trump's executive order to keep transgender athletes out of women's sports. UMS, a network of eight public universities in Maine, was subject to a temporary pause in funding from the USDA last week during an ongoing battle between the state and the federal government over trans inclusion in women's and girls sports. The funding was reinstated just days...

Sebago, Maine — You know you're in Maine when the pancakes come hot off a 100-year-old wood stove. But drill into Alan Greene's eighth-generation maple syrup operation in the town of Sebago, and you'll find it doesn't run as smoothly as it used to. "The last 10 years, we are definitely becoming warmer earlier," said Greene, who runs Greene Maple Farms. "We're not getting the cold and the gradual warm-up. We're getting warm-up, warm-up, warm-up, with deep freezes in between." It's been a cold winter in Maine so far this year. But across the country, over time, climate change has...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration pauses ALL federal funding to Maine Universities for REFUSING to ban men from women’s sports. 8:11 PM · Mar 11, 2025