The US Supreme Court reinstated voting and speaking privileges for Maine State Rep. Laurel Libby (R), who was censured for identifying a transgender student athlete in a social media post.
The order on Tuesday granted Libby’s emergency request, which said the revocation of her voting and speaking privileges effectively disenfranchised her constituents. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.
Libby was first elected in 2020 to represent a state House district in south-central Maine. She and other conservative lawmakers were stripped of their committee assignments in 2021 for violating the legislature’s mask mandate.
The latest controversy arose from a ...
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