Posted on 04/18/2025 3:18:14 PM PDT by CFW
A federal judge has ruled against censured Maine State Rep Laurel Libby, siding with State House Speaker Ryan Fecteau. Libby filed a federal lawsuit after she was censored in the House chamber over a social media post that depicted a high school trans-identified male winning the state championship, despite President Donald Trump’s order banning trans-identified males competing in women’s sports.
District Judge Melissa R. DuBose wrote in her ruling, "After carefully considering the case law, the details presented by the parties about the House governing rules, and the process by which the House adopted the Resolution and imposed the censure on Representative Libby, the court concludes that the suspension of Representative Libby’s privilege to speak or vote on the House floor is not of such an extraordinary character that this exception to absolute legislative immunity for legislators will apply."
She explained that the Supreme Court has "long considered legislators (and often, but not always, their staff) absolutely immune from being sued for their legislative acts."
She wrote that the "process Speaker Fecteau followed when he imposed the sanction ultimately reflected the will of the majority of the House members," and that the "censure and its sanction on Representative Libby is, at bottom, an internal Maine House affair."
(Excerpt) Read more at thepostmillennial.com ...
I really didn't expect to see this in my lifetime.
Gradually, then suddenly indeed. We surely live in interesting times.
But whut bout are democracy? Her constituents were denied representation.
“How did our nation fall so far so quickly??!! A state representative censured for standing for truth.”
No kidding!
One other thing. Now we have state legislatures having their censure of a Representative adjudicated by the federal courts!
Federal judges are endlessly sticking their noses into the Legislative and Executive branches.
Yes, I understand that this was done as a result of Libby’s lawsuit.
She may have a point I’m not sure legal precedents here
Raw insanity. Who let the demons of hell out?
there is absolutely no retaliatory action being taken at all. Across the board the left is running rampant while we make nice and dont go after a single democrat crime...
START INDICMENTS NOW
there is absolutely no retaliatory action being taken at all. Across the board the left is running rampant while we make nice and dont go after a single democrat crime...
START INDICTMENTS NOW
Melissa R. DuBose is a Biden stooge.
The “judge” is LGBTQ. She’s a weirdo.
She’s a Biden stooge and LBGTQ.
Not quickly at all...
It was, and continues to be, a long-orchestrated slide originally designed and planned in the late 1890s...
Relentlessly, over 100 years, it moved forward using the “thousand little cuts” approach by the Marxists, who now dominate the Nation’s education, political, and legal systems...
I never knew that I hated Maine until this year!
Another skanky, female junior judge playing god.
“I never knew that I hated Maine until this year!”
I have been their twice for vacation for different reasons that I didn’t control. Kennebunkport, Portland...... Beautiful in the the Spring. But the people whom outwardly seem like patriotic Americans in fact love their Government Socialism and vote accordingly. Pretty much all of New England is like that.
I forgot to add.....
The wife and myself love the Maine Cabin Masters TV show. Fortunately the cast doesn’t wear their politics on their sleeve as I’m sure I would be disappointed if they did. They and the Magnolia Network (Chip and Joanna’s network of sorts) are of the few that realize Conservatives watch TV.
The judge is correct that the body governs itself. Other judges might see on top of that a disenfranchisement based refusal to accept coerced opinion. Will be interesting to watch the appeals.
Judge is correct. Courts have no business in this.
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