The Supreme Court restored Republican Maine State Rep. Laurel Libby’s ability to vote in the legislature on Tuesday after she was censured for a social media post opposing “transgender athletes” in women’s sports.
Libby asked the Supreme Court to intervene in April, alleging Democrat House Speaker Ryan Fecteau barred her from speaking or voting “until she recants her view.”
“This means her thousands of constituents in Maine House District 90 are now without a voice or vote for every bill coming to the House floor for the rest of her elected term, which runs through 2026,” Libby’s emergency petition said. “They are disenfranchised. Libby and her district had no vote on the State’s $11 billion budget, had no vote on a proposed constitutional amendment, and will have no vote on hundreds more proposed laws including—most ironically—whether Maine should change its current policy of requiring girls to compete alongside transgender athletes.”
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