Trump signed a handful of executive orders Monday, including declaring a national emergency at the southern border.

"It’s not his job to reinterpret the Constitution. It’s his job to follow the Constitution," Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey said Tuesday.

In separate legal actions, Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey and the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine sued the Trump administration over its executive order on Monday to rescind birthright citizenship.

In the weeks after the election, appointments for contraceptives, like IUDs, grew at Maine's Planned Parenthood centers from a weekly average of 26 to 48.

Commercial-scale leases in the Gulf of Maine, a state research project and plans for a turbine-assembly port will be affected by one of the new president's first executive orders.

Two of the most vulnerable Republican senators ahead of the 2026 midterms voiced pushback to President Donald Trump 's sweeping pardons of January 6 defendants on Tuesday. Trump issued pardons for those convicted of crimes during the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol building as one of his first actions in office on Monday.

Only 16 of 435 congressional districts nationwide supported a House candidate and a presidential candidate from different parties, and one of those districts is in Maine.

President Trump revoked a Biden-era executive order that affirmed the longstanding practice of including the total number of persons residing in each state in a census count used for election maps.

"I do not support pardons given to people who engaged in violence on January 6, including assaulting police officers," Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) said.

While Maine voters have overwhelmingly passed laws in the past two general elections to place stricter regulations on money in politics, those reforms have so far been blocked as legal battles play out in the courts.

The report on federal charges against Trump for election interference in 2020 offers special counsel Jack Smith a last chance to explain his decisions after dropping the case.

Bobby Hite, Suzanne Sayer and Chelsea Suvlu will be on the March 11 special election ballot to replace ex-School Committee member Benjamin Briggs, according to Town Clerk Jillian Richards. The filing period ended Friday, Jan. 10. Briggs, who was elected in November 2022, resigned due to moving out of Maine.