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Supreme Court Orders Maine House to Restore Vote of Censured GOP Lawmaker Who Identified Transgender Teen Athlete Online
- On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered Maine to reinstate the voting rights of Republican Rep. Laurel Libby, who had been censured by the Democratic-led House after sharing a social media post about a transgender high school athlete.
- Libby posted the identification in February, which the House found violated its ethics code and put the student at risk, leading House Speaker Ryan Fecteau to block her from voting pending an ongoing legal appeal.
- Libby’s refusal to apologize triggered her censure, a lawsuit that failed in lower courts, and a Supreme Court emergency appeal supported by 15 Republican attorneys general seeking to prevent legislative silencing of an elected official.
- In a 7-2 ruling with dissent from Justices Sotomayor and Jackson, the Court granted Libby a preliminary injunction, allowing her to resume legislative duties and representing the interests of approximately 9,000 constituents who had effectively been deprived of their representation.
- The ruling temporarily reinstates Libby’s voting rights while the case proceeds and suggests that legislative rules cannot be used to permanently silence lawmakers for protected speech on controversial issues.
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ThePatriotLight - Maine Democrats Are Losing the Plot—and the People
ThePatriotLight - If Democrats in Vacationland thought the censure of Rep. Laurel Libby would put an end to the education policy debate surrounding Title IX—and the participation of biological men in women’s sports—they’ve misread the moment, misread federal law, and badly misread their voters. What was meant to silence dissent has only amplified it. What was supposed to end the debate has cracked it wide open. In March, I wrote about how Democr…
Supreme Court Restores Laurel Libby's Voting Rights
The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered the Maine House of Representatives to reinstate Republican State Representative Laurel Libby‘s voting privileges, which had been suspended following her social media post identifying a transgender high school athlete. The Court’s decision allows Libby to resume her legislative duties while her legal challenge proceeds. In February 2025, Rep. Libby posted on Facebook criticizing the participation of a transgende…
Supreme Court Temporarily Reinstates Maine Lawmaker’s Voting Rights Amid Free Speech Dispute
In a significant ruling on May 20, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an emergency order requiring the Maine House of Representatives to temporarily restore voting rights to Republican State Representative Laurel Libby. This decision comes as Libby challenges a censure imposed after she publicly criticized a transgender high school athlete on social media. Supreme Court Temporarily Reinstates Maine Lawmaker’s Voting Rights Amid Free Speech Disp…
'Deeply corrosive': Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Jackson ripped for having problem with 'being consistent' * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
Ketanji Jackson testifies to the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 22, 2022. The Supreme Court this week ordered the Democrat majority in the Maine legislature to dissolve its “censure” of a Republican member whose was being punished for expressing her opinions about a boy being allowed on a girls athletic team in the state. Justice Ketanji Jackson, who infamously could not, or would not, tell a Senate committee the definition of a “woman” dur…
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