US President Donald Trump has clashed with the Governor of Maine Janet Mills claiming “we are the federal law” in the face of non-compliance on his executive order relating to transgender athletes.

Professor Aiden Warren from RMIT told Bill McDonald on 4BC Mornings, “I don’t care where you are on any side of the politics, whether you’re left, moderate or right. This is really a significant, real challenge to democracy.”

“Because democracy at its purest level, one of the main factors is about following process, law, transparency, and these are the measures that hold democracy together. And he is really… he is undercutting it at the moment on so many different levels.”

“Everything’s going unchecked. We’re only four weeks in, there’s four years of this,” Warren continued.

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