The Supreme Court orders the Maine Legislature to revoke the censorship of representative Laurel Libby on the trans post athlete

The United States Supreme Court ordered the Maine State Legislature to revoke its censorship of the state representative of the Laurel Libby Republican Party on Tuesday. Libby has been censored since February 15 for a publication on social networks that identified a transgender athlete of the Maine High School that won a girl pole jump competition.

In a 7-2 decision, the Court ruled that the right of Libby to the relief of censorship is “unquestionably clear.”

The legislator of the Republican party held the decision of the Supreme Court in an X position.

“This is a victory not only for my constituents, but for the Constitution itself. The Supreme Court has affirmed what should never have been in doubt, that no state legislature has the power to silence an elected official simply for speaking sincerely on issues that matter,” Libby wrote.

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Meanwhile, Judges Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dismit.

Jackson criticized the concession of emergency relief for Libby, and broader concerns of emergency appeals of the ‘Shadow file’.

“The irrigation of our court standards to grant emergency relief is, for me, unfortunate development,” Jackson said. “At a minimum, when lowering the bar to grant emergency relief, the Court itself will assume the responsibility of the resulting systemic interruption, as an increase in the requests of our” extraordinary “intervention, in the previous and previous stages of the procedures of the lower Court in progress, and with an increasing frequency, it will undoubtedly follow it.”

Since his censorship was placed in February, Libby has argued that his position initially did not publish the incident or the figure, since the athlete had already been publicized in other media.

Libby previously said to News Digital that no one from the athlete’s school or family communicated with her about the position.

The first person Libby says that he heard that he had disagreed with his post was the president of Maine House, Ryan Fecteau, whom he is now demanding to censor her in the position.

“He found it objectable and asked me to stop him, at the same time I asked him if he would support Maine’s girls, and support the policy that stopped discrimination against young women in Maine in sports and refused to answer,” Libby said. “The main criticism of the Democrats is that it was an image of a minor.”

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The Fecteau office previously provided documents to News Digital confirming that the conversation took place.

“I ask you to take the publication,” Fecteau wrote in a letter to Libby on February 18. “In addition to risking the safety of the young man, his position violates one of the long -term political traditions of” leaving children out of it, a tradition that has been observed by political experts regarding the treatment of children who are in the White House, the most scrutinized office in the nation. “

Then, after censorship was approved in the state’s house in February, Fecteau told Libby that censorship would be revoked if it apologizes for publication on social networks. But Libby firmly refused.

On the other hand, the state representative filed a lawsuit for censorship to revoke, but was declared by the Judge of the District Court of Rhode Island, Melissa Dubose, who was appointed by former President Biden in January. Dubose presided over the case after each district judge in Maine refused to take the case.

Libby then presented an appeal before the First Circuit Appeals Court, but also declared itself against there. Then he took his case to the Supreme Court in April.

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The defendants, Fecteau and the secretary of the House of Representatives, Robert Hunt, represented by the Attorney General Aaron Frey, defended the decision to censor Libby for the February position in his response to the appeal of the Supreme Court last week.

“Like other censorships of the members of Maine’s house, the resolution of censorship required that the Libby representative apologize for their behavior, not retract from their views. The Libby representative has firmly refused to fulfill this modest punishment, which is designed to restore the integrity and reputation of the body,” the answer said.

“Its refusal places it in breach of a centenary rule of the house of Maine, rule 401 (11), that the Libby representative previously agreed, together with all his colleagues in the Chamber, would govern the procedures of the Chamber. Rule 401 (11) establishes that a member found by the body to be in breach of his rules cannot participate in the debates or vote in things before the chamber of representatives before the chamber of representatives before the chamber They have been satisfied with the satisfaction of the body, which take over their rules, cannot participate in the debates or votes in things before the House of Representatives until satisfaction has been made by the body, which cannot participate in its plant.

Libby received support from the United States Department of Justice and Attorney General PAM Bondi, who presented a brief Libby’s brief support in his lawsuit, and Bondi has spoken personally in support of the Republican state representative in conflict.

“The Department of Justice He is proud to fight for girls in Maine and be with the Libby representative, who is being attacked simply for defending girls in their native state. As our demand illustrates against the state of Maine, we will always protect the sports of the girls and the spaces of the girls of the radical gender ideology, “Bondi told News Digital.

Shannon Bream and William Mears of News contributed to this report.

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