Maine Democrats Respond To Scotus Appeal Over Rep Laurel Libby's Censure For Trans Athlete Post

Maine authorities Rep. Laurel Libby is seeking U.S. Supreme Court involution successful her suit to overturn her censure for a societal media station that identified a insignificant trans athlete. Now, nan Democrat defendants person revenge their consequence to nan precocious court. 

The defendants, Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau and House Clerk Robert Hunt, represented by Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey, defended nan determination to censure Libby for nan February station successful their consequence connected Thursday afternoon. 

"Like different censures of Maine House members, nan censure solution required Rep. Libby to apologize for her conduct—not recant her views. Rep. Libby has steadfastly refused to comply pinch this humble punishment, which is designed to reconstruct nan integrity and estimation of nan body," nan consequence read. 

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"Her refusal places her successful breach of a centuries-old norm of nan Maine House, Rule 401(11), that Rep. Libby antecedently agreed, on pinch each of her House colleagues, would govern House proceedings. Rule 401(11) provides that a personnel recovered by nan assemblage to beryllium successful breach of its rules whitethorn not participate successful level debates aliases ballot connected matters earlier nan afloat House until they person 'made satisfaction,' i.e., here, apologized for their breach."

When nan Democrat mostly successful Maine's House of Representatives voted to censure Libby connected Feb. 25, it primitively offered to reconstruct her voting and speaking authorities if she apologized for nan post. But Libby told them she wouldn't apologize.  

Libby antecedently told Fox News Digital that Fecteau called her nan time aft she made nan societal media post, which identified a trans jock who won a girls' rod vault competition, connected Feb. 18. 

"He recovered it objectionable and asked maine to return it down. At nan aforesaid time, I asked him if he would support Maine girls and support argumentation that stopped favoritism against Maine young women successful sports, and he declined to answer," Libby said. 

"The main disapproval each on from nan Democrats is that it was a image of a minor." 

Libby added that nary 1 from nan trans athlete's family aliases precocious schoolhouse reached retired to her astir nan post. She has besides based on nan jock was already publicized successful different media. The Portland Press Herald published a recap of nan event, mentioning nan athlete. 

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Libby revenge her suit against Fecteau to person nan censure overturned connected March 11.

But Rhode Island U.S. District Court Judge Melissa DuBose ruled against Libby successful her lawsuit connected April 22. DuBose, appointed by erstwhile President Joe Biden successful January, ended up presiding complete nan lawsuit aft each territory judge successful Maine refused to return it.

Judges John C. Nivison, John A. Woodcock, Lance E. Walker, Karen F. Wolf, Stacey D. Neumann and Nancy Torresen signed recusal orders soon aft nan lawsuit was initially filed. No logic was given.

DuBose ended up pinch nan lawsuit and ruled successful favour of Fecteau. Then nan 1st Circuit Court of Appeals besides ruled against Libby.

So now Libby is seeking U.S. Supreme Court intervention. 

Meanwhile, nan U.S. Justice Department announced a suit against nan State of Maine for its continued defiance of Trump’s executive bid to support biologic males retired of girls’ and women’s sports and for violations of Title IX. Libby attended nan property convention alongside Attorney General Pam Bondi and Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon. 

Two schoolhouse districts successful Maine, Maine's Regional School Unit No. 24 and MSAD No. 70, person taken matters into their ain hands and amended their section sports gender eligibility policies to prohibition transgender athletes from girls' competitions, aligning pinch Libby and Trump.

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Attention to nan rumor was magnified this past week aft a trans jock won aggregate events astatine a girls' way meet. 

A trans-identifying jock who competed for North Yarmouth Academy successful Yarmouth, Maine, successful nan Poland-NYA-Yarmouth-Seacoast meet, won nan 1600-meter title pinch a clip of 5:57.27, blowing distant nan second-place runner who vanished pinch a clip of 6:16.32. In nan 800-meter event, nan trans jock had a person first-place decorativeness pinch a clip of 2:43.31, conscionable astir a 2nd amended than nan second-place finisher pinch a clip of 2:44.87.  

A survey by nan American Parents Coalition recovered that retired of astir 600 registered Maine voters, 63% said schoolhouse sports information should beryllium based connected biologic sex, and 66% agreed it is "only adjacent to restrict women’s sports to biologic women."

The canvass besides recovered that 60% of residents would support a ballot measurement limiting participation in women’s and girls' sports to biological females. This included 64% of independents and 66% of parents pinch kids nether property 18.

Fox News' Shannon Bream and William Mears contributed to this report.

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