Maine Rep Banned for Posting About Trans Athlete Slams State’s Woke Leaders, Sues Over Free Speech Violation: Maine Judges Refuse to Take Rep Laurel Libby’s Court Case On Censure for Trans Athlete Post

Maine rep banned for posting about trans athlete slams state’s woke leaders, sues over free speech violation:

A Maine state legislator posted about trans athletes in women’s sports on her Facebook page — then got banned from speaking or voting on the State House floor.

Now she’s suing the House speaker for violating her First Amendment rights.

“It was a bad move politically for the Democrat majority to censure me for speaking up for Maine girls and their right to a fair, safe, and level playing field, especially because 80% of Americans feel as I do,” Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Minot) told The Post.

It all started on February 17 when Libby, a Republican from Maine’s 64th District, posted a photo of a Maine high school transgender pole vaulter standing on the first-place step of a state championship podium.

“We’ve learned that just *ONE* year ago John was competing in boy’s pole vault… that’s when he had his 5th place finish,” Libby wrote on her Facebook page. ”Tonight, ‘Katie’ won 1st place in the girls’ Maine State Class B Championship.”

The athlete’s first-place win shot their school’s team to a championship win by a single point.

“I comment about a wide variety of current issues here in Maine, so I did not expect a big issue about it,” Libby said of the post.

“It was a public photo from a public event that an individual chose freely to participate in and step up on a podium during.”

The Democratic House speaker and majority leader in Maine quickly caught wind of the post and demanded she take it down.

When she refused, they introduced a motion to censure her, citing the fact that the photographed individual is a minor.

The resolution, which bars her from speaking on the House floor or voting on legislation until she apologizes, passed along partisan lines in a 75-70 vote. —>READ MORE HERE

Maine judges refuse to take Rep Laurel Libby’s court case on censure for trans athlete post:

After Maine State Rep. Laurel Libby filed a lawsuit over her recent censure for a social media post pointing out a trans athlete in a girls’ competition, all of Maine’s federal judges have recused themselves from the case.

The judges, John C. Nivison, John A. Woodcock, Lance E. Walker, Karen F. Wolf, Stacey D. Neumann and Nancy Torresen, signed recusal orders on Tuesday, shortly after the case was initially filed. No reason was provided for the judges’ recusal. The case has since been referred to the District of Rhode Island, per multiple reports.

Libby was censured by the state House of Representatives on Feb. 25 in a partisan 75-70 vote. The basis of the censure was that Libby posted a photograph and named a trans athlete who was under 18 after the athlete won first place for Greely High School at a state girls’ pole vault competition. But Libby and her attorneys argue the athlete had already been publicized by other media outlets prior to her post.

Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau, who passed the censure, is the main defendant in the lawsuit alongside House of Representatives clerk Robert Hunt. The Maine Attorney General’s Office will represent Fecteau.

Libby’s lawsuit seeks to have her voting and speaking rights restored. Fecteau previously said Libby’s rights would be restored when she apologized, but she does not intend to apologize. Libby told Fox News Digital in an interview on Tuesday that she encourages Fecteau to restore her rights to avoid taking the case to court and costing taxpayers the price of any potential litigation.

Libby represents more than 9,000 constituents in Maine’s House District 90, and six of them have signed onto the lawsuit as plaintiffs because the censure has impeded her ability to help carry out other legislative actions to serve those constituents. —>READ MORE HERE

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