A federal judge gave Maine State Rep. Laurel Libby on Friday in her trial to get her distrust of the state legislator overturned. Libby was censored February 15 for a social media post that identified a transking athlete who won a girls State Pole Vault title.
The judge who made the decision is Rhode Island Us District Court -Judge Melissa Dubose, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden just before leaving the office in January.
Dubose denied Libby’s proposal for a preliminary injunction Friday, giving Process House speaker Ryan Fecteau, used to impose the sanction, reflected the will of the majority of Maine House members.
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Dubose presided 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 Torresen signed repayment orders shortly after the case was originally filed. No reason was given.
So the case went to Dubose on Rhode Island.
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Libby is “disappointed” at the decision, but plans to appeal it and will take the case to the court of appeal and potentially the US Supreme Court.
“I certainly do not leave any stones that have not turned to get my voters to their voice and voice back,” Libby told Pakinomist Digital.
Libby represents 9,000 voters in Maines 90. District and have been unable to speak or vote on their behalf in state laws for 62 days.
It cost her a chance to vote on the state’s half -yearly budget and propose a bill to expand access to mental health resources for residents.
When her mistrust is back in place, it prevents Libby from voting for or talking on the household about a bill that would add trans -cluttering to girls’ sports to the State Constitution.
Her colleagues will vote on the democratic majority’s bill after it has adopted with a slim simple majority in the house on Thursday, but needs a two -third majority in both chambers before it can go before voters. If it was adopted, it would codify in the State Constitution Maine Human Rights Act (MHRA), which protects transking athletes’ rights to compete for sports teams of the opposite sex.
“I don’t want to be able to vote on it,” Libby said.
Libby’s social media posts that got the distrust of pushing the entire state into an active legal battle with President Donald Trump’s administration on the issue of Trans athletes in girls sports.
The US Department of Justice filed a trial Against the state of its ongoing tross against Trump’s “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive order. Maine has been subjected to federal pressure in the last two months in relation to his rejection of complying with, including two federal investigations, a financing freezing of the US Ministry of Agriculture and now a lawsuit.
Democratic leadership in the state, led by government chief Janet Mills, has fought back and filed their own trial against Trump on financing freezing. Another federal judge has already decided that the USDA should free up financing.
“I’m happy to go to court and litigation The questions raised in this law complaint,” Mills told journalists on Thursday.
ONE Examination of The coalition of the American parents found that out of approx. 600 registered Maine voters, 63% said school sports participation should be based on biological sex, and 66% agreed that it is “only fair to limit women’s sports to biological women.”
The survey also found that 60% of residents would support a ballot limiting participation in Women and Girls Sport to Biological Women. This included 64% of the independent and 66% of parents with children under the age of 18.