PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Main Principals Group is fighting a US Department of Justice subpoena seeking names of all students playing scholastic sports in the state as DOJ attempts to join transgender athletes.
President Donald Trump’s administration He sued the main in April. Because I don’t follow Presidential Order Except for trans athletes in sports. The Justice Department followed a subpoena from the Maine Principals Association, a nonprofit that oversees Maine school sports and seeks a lot of information.
The full extent of the subpoena has not been made public as the judge sealed it. However, in a legal application on September 4, the Principals Association said the subpoena included “a request for the production of all national campaign regimes” and “it requires that students be provided with personally identifiable information that is often unrelated to the underlying controversy.”
The Principals’ Association asks the judge to refuse the subpoena, and the request is pending in federal court. James Bellow, the association’s lawyer, said Thursday that the group is willing to provide documents in response to the subpoena, but does not disclose any information that is overly extensive or personally identifiable.
“The MPA protects confidential student names and records and school staff,” Bellow said.
DOJ officials did not respond to requests for comment. A spokesman for the Maine Attorney General’s Office declined to comment on the case.
The federal government said in court documents this month that it believes student information requests are “very relevant” and “in proportion to the needs of this important case of boys playing in sports designated for girls.”
The federal submission said the request includes a record of athletics in which students compete in athletic events designated for the opposite sex. He also states that the athletic roster request is “necessary background evidence” for the case.
Maine and the Federal Government It’s become more modest It has been targeted for transgender sports since February’s meeting at the White House, including the state’s Democratic government’s conflict between Janet Mills and Trump. Between Governor’s meetingTrump threatened to withdraw funds from Maine if the state fails to comply with an order banning trans athletes.
Mills told the president: “We’ll meet you in court.” The U.S. Department of Education later said in March that the investigation concluded that Maine had violated it. Title IX A non-differentiation law by allowing transgender girls to compete on girls’ sports teams and use girls’ facilities.
Maine officials said the state said in April. I haven’t followed yet With the ban, the federal government introduced the investigation to the Department of Justice.
