Supreme Court restores Maine Republican Rep Laurel Libby’s right to vote and speak in the Maine Legislature
Original URL: https://merylnass.substack.com/p/supreme-court-restores-maine-republicanAll the mainstream (Democrat) media used the same unflattering photo of Rep Libby, below. The propaganda machine uses every device to denigrate Republicans it possibly can. Above is the real Laurel Libby, but note how she was portrayed elsewhere. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/us/politics/supreme-court-maine-legislator.html By Abbie VanSickle Reporting from Washington May 20, 2025 The Supreme Court on Tuesday...
All the mainstream (Democrat) media used the same unflattering photo of Rep Libby, below. The propaganda machine uses every device to denigrate Republicans it possibly can.
Above is the real Laurel Libby, but note how she was portrayed elsewhere.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/us/politics/supreme-court-maine-legislator.html
Reporting from Washington
May 20, 2025
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered Maine legislators to temporarily restore the voting power of a state lawmaker after she had been censured for a social media post that criticized transgender athletes’ participation in girls’ sports.
The order was unsigned and did not provide the court’s reasoning, as is typical in such emergency applications. No vote count was listed, but Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted she would have denied the application, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote a dissent.
The court order provided no further explanation on next steps, but the legislator, State Representative Laurel Libby, had asked in her application to immediately be allowed to participate in the current legislative session, which ends in June.
Lawmakers had censured Ms. Libby, a Republican from Auburn, in February after she wrote a Facebook post criticizing the participation of a transgender athlete who had won a high school pole-vaulting competition. Ms. Libby included the name and photos of the student in the post, which went viral…