Republicans appeal for Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ cocaine case documents

More than three decades after Maine’s Democratic Gov. Janet Mills avoided releasing approximately 6,000 pages of case files pertaining to the federal investigation into her alleged cocaine use, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) is seeking those very documents. 

The NRSC submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in April 2025, attempting to release the files relating to her suspected cocaine use trial amid suspicion that Democrats were recruiting her to jump into the state’s Senate race.

While NARA initially told the NRSC they would review the request, they later claimed 3,000 pages of the files were under FOIA exemption, which preserves the secrecy of grand jury testimony.

The NRSC is now appealing the denial of those records, citing public interest in the case. Fox News Digital first reported last month on the newly unearthed memo that contradicts Mills’ claim that an investigation into her alleged cocaine use was politically motivated. 

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Fox News Digital has learned that approximately 3,195 documents that did not fall under the FOIA exemption required a wait time of 11 years to process. 

However, in 1992, Mills submitted her own FOIA request for the same documents. 

A newspaper article from the Ellsworth American reported that Mills got a response that NARA was “too busy” to process her request at the time.

When asked if she would make the documents publicly available if she received them, Mills told the outlet, “I’d first have to see what was in it.”

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Maine Gov. Janet Mills was confronted on camera about alleged cocaine use, which she has dismissed as a political witch hunt. (Fox News Digital)

Fox News Digital has not found a record of Mills releasing those documents, and Fox News Digital reached out to Mills’s office but did not receive a response.

In early 1990, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maine, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and Maine’s Bureau of Intergovernmental Drug Enforcement (BIDE) investigated Mills, then a sitting district attorney in…