The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) handed Maine state Rep. Laurel Libby (R), not to mention free speech, a huge victory Tuesday afternoon by restoring her voting privileges in the Maine House of Representatives. In a 7-2 ruling, with Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissenting, SCOTUS ordered the Maine legislature to revoke the February 15th censure of Libby, which saw her unable to vote on behalf of her 9,000 constituents.
As RedState has previously reported, Libby first got into trouble with some of her Democrat colleagues when she posted to social media the photo of a biological male celebrating his win in a girl’s track and field event. Libby noted that the boy had come in fifth place a year earlier when competing in the same event in the boys division, but emerged the victor when he decided to compete as a girl. Despite the fact that Libby had used a photo that was publicly available, Maine Speaker of the House Ryan Fecteau (D) censured Libby and demanded she apologize for her actions … or else.
That “or else,” as reported earlier in May be our own Bonchie, was stripping Libby of her voting privileges and banning her from speaking on the record.
Democrats in Maine have not only censured a Republican representative for speaking the truth about biological reality regarding transgenderism and sports, but left-wing House Speaker Ryan Fecteau has now barred her from voting and speaking. At the center of the controversy is a Facebook post that Republican House Rep. Laurel Libby made. In it, she posted a picture of a “transgender girl” (a biological male) who recently won the Maine state championship in pole-vaulting. For context, he had competed as a boy (which he is) just one year prior.
For that grave sin, Libby was stripped of her voting rights in the Maine House and banned from speaking on the record.
Such a revocation of voting and speaking rights meant that thousands of Maine residents did not have their interests represented in the state legislature.
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Libby filed an appeal in late April seeking emergency relief; her attorneys wrote at the time, “The member’s vote is not her own; it belongs to her district. And depriving an entire district of representation is no more constitutional than excluding that district from a redistricting plan in the first place.”
And the Supreme Court agreed.
In a later post on X, Libby offered additional thoughts on her victory:
This is a victory not just for my constituents, but for the Constitution itself. The Supreme Court has affirmed what should NEVER have been in question — that no state legislature has the power to silence an elected official simply for speaking truthfully about issues that matter.
Libby’s case got a boost when the U.S. Department of Justice filed an amicus brief supporting her lawsuit. Attorney General Pam Bondi spoke out on Libby’s behalf shortly before the SCOTUS ruling was announced.
“The Department of Justice is proud to fight for girls in Maine and stand alongside Rep. Libby, who is being attacked simply for defending girls in her home state. As our lawsuit against the state of Maine illustrates, we will always protect girls’ sports and girls’ spaces from radical gender ideology,” Bondi told Fox News Digital.
In her dissent, Justice Jackson argued that intervention by SCOTUS would be premature. Wrote Jackson: “Why would any applicant who thinks the lower courts are mistaken wait for those courts’ final word on an issue if real-time error correction via our emergency docket is readily available?”
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