Maine state rep asks Supreme Court to intervene amid battle over trans athlete post

Maine authorities Rep. Laurel Libby said Monday she volition entreaty to the Supreme Court for exigency involution aft lawmakers censured her implicit a societal media station astir a transgender athlete.

The Republican lawmaker volition inquire the Supreme Court to close a U.S. District Court decision, which ruled against Libby successful her quest for a preliminary injunction to forestall the sanction.

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State Rep. Laurel Libby speaks with a colleague, Feb. 14, 2023, astatine the State House successful Augusta, Maine.  (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

"For implicit 100 days my constituents person had nary accidental successful immoderate actions taken by their government, actions that straight interaction their lives," Libby said successful a connection connected Monday. "Every ballot taken connected the level of the legislature is simply a ballot my constituents cannot get back, the bully radical of our territory person been silenced and disenfranchised.

"We are hopeful the Court volition enactment swiftly to halt the Democrats’ ongoing usurpation of the Constitution and suppression of dissenting voices, adjacent arsenic the broader lawsuit continues done the appeals process."

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State Rep Laurel Libby filed an exigency entreaty to the Supreme Court. (Fox News)

The state's Democratic bulk voted to censure her for penning a societal media station that identified a trans jock who won a girls' authorities rod vault contention successful February. Libby filed a suit against House Speaker Ryan Fecteau to person it overturned, but Rhode Island U.S. District Court Judge Melissa DuBose ruled against Libby earlier this month.

The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals besides ruled against Libby.

Libby antecedently told Fox News Digital she was consenting to instrumentality her lawsuit to the Supreme Court.

"Our entreaty asks the tribunal to close this maltreatment of powerfulness and reaffirm that legislative enactment cannot usage procedural maneuvers and sweeping assertions of immunity to sideline dissenting voices and disenfranchise full communities," Libby told Fox News Digital successful a statement. 

"I stay optimistic that the tribunal volition admit what is plainly astatine stake: the integrity of typical authorities and the foundational rule that nary elected official, nary legislative leader, and nary partisan bulk is supra the Constitution. The radical of House District 90 merit afloat representation, and we mean to spot that close restored."

Libby represents 9,000 constituents successful Maine's 90th District and has not been capable to talk oregon ballot connected their behalf successful the authorities legislature for 2 months.

The U.S. Supreme Court, Nov. 15, 2023, successful Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

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DuBose said successful her ruling that the authorisation "is not of specified bonzer quality arsenic to obliterate the formidable shield the courts person provided to legislative acts."

Fox News’ Jackson Thompson and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

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