Aaron Frey

The suit focuses on the administration's efforts to terminate grants for programs that were already in progress.

A coalition of states is suing the Transportation and Homeland Security Departments.

Thursday's filing from Maine comes three weeks after the U.S. Justice Department sued the state and claimed that the Maine Department of Education is violating Title IX by allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls' and women's sports.

Maine attorneys say they're taking additional steps this year to affirm their commitment to the U.S. Constitution in light of attacks from the Trump administration.

It is rare that members of Maine's congressional delegation hold in-person "town hall" meetings. But the predominant theme from the left-leaning crowd at Democratic Rep. Chellie Pingree's event was concern about the Trump administration's agenda.

Federal officials said they were launching administrative proceedings to terminate grants to Maine after state officials refused to comply with the Trump administration's demand that Maine ban transgender athletes from girls' and women's sports.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins notified Gov. Janet Mills of the funding freeze last week, warning that "this is only the beginning" unless the state complies with the Trump administration's ban on transgender athletes.

Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey has joined 18 other attorneys general in filing a lawsuit against President Donald Trump's executive order that attempts to reshape U.S. elections. The lawsuit claims the order is unconstitutional.

Frey's office accuses Alexander Treshinsky of making threatening and racist comments toward a Congolese immigrant.

Maine is one of 20 states suing Secretary of Education Linda McMahon and President Donald Trump to reverse layoffs at the federal Department of Education.