Maine governor sues state's attorney general in Trump policy tussle
Source: Reuters
POLITICS | Mon May 1, 2017 | 6:48pm EDT
Maine governor sues state's attorney general in Trump policy tussle
Republican Maine Governor Paul LePage on Monday sued the state's Democratic attorney general, contending she had abused her power by joining legal opposition to early moves by President Donald Trump that LePage's office supported.
LePage, a fiery conservative now in his second term, challenged Attorney General Janet Mills for joining a legal brief opposing Trump's executive order banning immigration from a half-dozen majority Muslim countries.
The governor said he supported Trump's order, which has been blocked by courts and which the White House says is necessary to protect national security.
"It is no secret that Attorney General Mills and I have differing political views, but that is not the issue," LePage said in a statement. "The problem is she has publicly denounced court cases which the executive branch has requested to join and subsequently refuses to provide legal representation for the state."
He said Mills had refused to represent the state in other cases where she disagreed with LePage's political position and prevented his office from filing its own brief in support of Trump, a charge that Mills denied.
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