AG Keith Ellison Sues Trump Administration Over Anti-Trans Executive Orders
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KVRR) — Minnesota’s Attorney General Keith Ellison files a lawsuit against the Trump Administration for repeated threats to cut federal funding to Minnesota schools if the state does not follow Trump’s attempts to deny civil rights of transgender people.
Ellison alleges two of Trump’s executive orders targeting transgender children and adults violate U.S. Constitution and Title IX.
The two orders involved in the lawsuit are the “Gender Ideology Order” and the “Sports Ban Order.” Ellison says the, “attack is bullying, plain and simple.”
The lawsuit also includes defendants Attorney General Pam Bondi and the United States Department of Justice.
Ellison says, “They’re trying to remove trans kids from public life and from the things that let kids be kids. And now they’re coming after Minnesota, threatening to cut off our federal funding unless we turn our backs on our kids. They don’t wanna make they wanna make all of us pay because we welcome all children and want them to be their whole selves.”
In February, Attorney General Ellison sued to block another Trump executive order that blocked federal funding for gender-affirming care and criminalized the provision of it.
