A federal judge ruled against the state representative of Maine Laurel Libby on Friday in his lawsuit to have his censorship in the state legislature. Libby was censored on February 15 for a social networks publication that identified a transgender athlete who won a state pole jump title of girls.
The judge who said the ruling is the judge of the United States District Court of Rhode Island, Melissa Dubose, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden just before leaving office in January.
Dubose denied Libby’s motion for a preliminary court order on Friday, governing the president of the process house, Ryan Fecteau, used to impose the sanction reflected the will of the majority of the members of Maine’s house.
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Dubose presided over the case after each district judge in Maine refused to take it.
Judges John C. Nivison, John A. Woodcock, Lance E. Walker, Karen F. Wolf, Stacey D. Neumann and Nancy Torrenen signed challenge orders shortly after the case was initially presented. No reason was given.
Then, the case went to Dubose at Rhode Island.
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Libby is “disappointed” by the ruling, but plans to appeal it and will take the case before the Court of Appeals and, potentially, the United States Supreme Court.
“I certainly won any stone without stirring so that my voters are your voice and vote,” Libby told Fox News Digital.
Libby represents 9,000 constituents in the 90th District of Maine and has not been able to speak or vote in its name in the state legislature for 62 days.
That cost him the opportunity to vote on the state biannual budget and propose a bill to expand access to mental health resources for residents.
With his censorship in his place, he will prevent Libby from voting or talking on the floor of the Chamber on a bill that would add the trans inclination in girls’ sports to the state constitution.
His colleagues will vote on the bill of the democratic majority after it was approved with a simple majority in the camera on Thursday, but will need a two -thirds majority in both members before they can go for the case of voters. If approved, the state constitution would codify the Maine Human Rights Law (MHRA), which protects the rights of transgender athletes to compete for opposite sex sports teams.
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“I won’t be able to vote about that,” Libby said.
The publication of Libby social networks that caused censorship to pushed the entire state to an active legal battle with the administration of President Donald Trump on the issue of trans athletes in girls sports.
The United States Department of Justice presented A demand Against the State for its incomplexing of the Executive Order to “keep men out of women’s sports.” Maine has faced a federal pressure in the last two months about his refusal to meet, including two federal investigations, a freezing of funds by the United States Department of Agriculture and now a lawsuit.
Democratic leadership in the state, led by Governor Janet Mills, has fought, presenting her own demand against Trump for the freezing of funds. Another federal judge already ruled that the USDA must defrost the funds.
“I am happy to go to court and litigate the problems that arise in this judicial complaint,” Mills told reporters on Thursday.
TO Survey The coalition of American parents discovered that about 600 registered voters of Maine, 63% said that school sports participation should be based on biological sex, and 66% agreed that it is “just restricting women’s sports to biological women.”
The survey also found that 60% of residents would admit a voting measure that limits separation in Women and girls sports for Biological females. This included 64% of independents and 66% of parents with children under 18.
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