See you in court.” With those four words, Gov. Janet Mills went from a 77-year-old governor serving the last two years of her final term in a lightly populated state to an unlikely heroine of the Trump resistance.

Hours after President Trump publicly sparred with Mills, the Democrat released a statement warning Americans that “the rule of law” is at stake.

Maine's governor, who has a long history of facing tough guys in the courtroom and in politics, finds herself in an unprecedented moment with the nation watching.