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Supreme Court orders Maine legislature to revoke censure of Rep. Laurel Libby over trans athlete post
Fox news ^ | By Jackson Thompson

Posted on 05/20/2025 3:13:28 PM PDT by NoLibZone

The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Maine state legislature to revoke its censure of GOP state representative Laurel Libby on Tuesday. Libby has been censured since Feb. 15 for a social media post that identified a transgender Maine high school athlete who won a girls' pole vault competition.

In a 7-2 decision, the court ruled that Libby's entitlement to relief from the censure is "indisputably clear."

The GOP lawmaker celebrated the Supreme Court decision in an X post.

"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 wrote.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: crossdressers; maine; transgender

1 posted on 05/20/2025 3:13:28 PM PDT by NoLibZone
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To: NoLibZone

Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.

Why am I not surprised.


2 posted on 05/20/2025 3:16:13 PM PDT by Nifty
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To: NoLibZone

Should Kenaji recuse herself from all cases involving the sex of anyone involved in the case? She isn’t a biologist!!!


3 posted on 05/20/2025 3:17:24 PM PDT by PortugeeJoe
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To: Nifty

Two DEI hires....


4 posted on 05/20/2025 3:17:56 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Nifty

Using the word justice in conjunction with those two names is appalling.


5 posted on 05/20/2025 3:25:12 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Fungi

So sad that the other justices will have a DEI taint to the court now. after Scalia the IQ of the court has really suffered.


6 posted on 05/20/2025 3:33:07 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Nifty
Dark Prissy and the Wide Latina.

7 posted on 05/20/2025 3:38:57 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: NoLibZone

on what possible constitutional grounds ????

this Supreme Court (as with most recent Supremos) is out of control and desperately needs correction

it breed the (now unfortunately very widespread) contempt for law and our judiciary
this has terrible consequences in society


8 posted on 05/20/2025 3:44:30 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: NoLibZone
Libby has been censured since Feb. 15 for a social media post that identified a transgender Maine high school athlete who won a girls' pole vault competition.

Competitors at a girls' pole vault competition shouldn't bring their own pole.

9 posted on 05/20/2025 3:44:38 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (God doesn't make mistakes. People who won't listen to Him do.)
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To: Nifty

Those two disgusting anti-American, anti-common sense, pro-crime b!tches did it again.


10 posted on 05/20/2025 3:48:41 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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To: Nifty

Unwise latina and the definitionally uncertain


11 posted on 05/20/2025 3:51:35 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Schiff to GITMO)
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To: NoLibZone

The Maine governor skank has to tell the SCOTUS, “See ya in court.” What a skank.


12 posted on 05/20/2025 4:02:13 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Where can Americans go to seek justice now that the RATS own the judiciary?)
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To: BigEdLB

You mean “Wide Latina”, right?


13 posted on 05/20/2025 4:05:20 PM PDT by MortMan (Charter member of AAAAA - American Association Against Alliteration Abuse)
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To: Fungi

Exactly what they are. Sotomayor couldn’t pass the bar exam without ‘accommodation..’


14 posted on 05/20/2025 5:07:30 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: MikelTackNailer

or forced to compete with the pole they brought.


15 posted on 05/20/2025 5:18:03 PM PDT by cableguymn (Can't cancel all of us)
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To: cableguymn

I heard he had a little snagging problem going over the top. Didn’t get to Target’s “Tuckees” sale on time.


16 posted on 05/20/2025 5:29:34 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Listen to me now, think about it later and cry about it some other day.)
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