After the representative of the state of Maine, Laurel Libby, filed a complaint on his recent censorship for an article on social networks highlighting an athlete trans in a competition for girls, all the federal judges of Maine have challenged themselves from the case.
The judges, John C. Nivison, John A. Woodcock, launches E. Walker, Karen F. Wolf, Stacey D. Neumann and Nancy Torresen, signed recusation orders on Tuesday, shortly after the case. No reason has been provided for the challenge of judges. The case has since been returned to the Rhode Island district, according to several reports.
Libby was censored by the House of State Representatives on February 25 during a supporting vote 75-70. The basis of censorship was that Libby published a photograph and appointed a Trans athlete who was under 18 after the athlete won first place for Greely High School during a girl for girls. But Libby and his lawyers argue that the athlete had already been published by other media before his post.
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The president of the Maine Chamber, Ryan Fecteau, who has adopted censorship, is the main defendant of the trial alongside the registrar of the House of Representatives, Robert Hunt. The Maine Prosecutor General’s Office will represent Fecteau.
The Libby trial seeks to restore its voting and speech rights. Fecteau previously said that Libby rights are restored when she apologized, but she does not intend to apologize. Libby told PK Press Club Digital on Tuesday in an interview that she encourages Fecteau to restore her rights to avoid bringing the case before the courts and cost taxpayers the price of any potential dispute.
Libby represents more than 9,000 voters in district 90 of the Maine Chamber, and six of them signed the trial as applicants because censorship has hampered its ability to help other legislative actions to serve these voters.
The representative of Maine Laurel Libby files a trial for censorship for having called the trans athlete in the sports of the girls
The representative of the state of Maine Laurel Libby sounds the alarm in the face of the state’s challenge with regard to the executive decree of President Donald Trump aimed at putting an end to biological men in competition in female sports. (Getty | Maine House of Representatives)
“The actions of the speaker not only deprived me of their rights, but deprived the thousands of voters that I represent, and this is the situation as a whole; the fact that the speaker, in his eyes, retaliated against me because he does not like what I must say,” said Libby.
For Libby, the trial is not only intended to restore its rights to itself and its voters. She also said that it was an important step in the national effort to combat trans inclusion in female sports.
“Maine is, for any reason, to become zero terrain for this debate, and, of course, I want to recover my voice so that I can talk about it; and as we approach this question within the legislative assembly, I hope that all the girls in Maine, but the girls from all over the country, can they help change the course,” said Libby not only.
Tuesday, Maine also became the first state to see a reduction in federal funding for refusing to comply with the executive decree of President Donald Trump to keep the TRANS athletes outside female and girls sports. The USDA has paused on all the financing of the University of Maine system, which is a network of eight public universities in the State.
Maine is the subject of a survey by the American Department of Education and the Ministry of Health and Social Services (HHS) for the potential violations of title IX on its refusal to comply with the recent executive order of Trump to prevent Trans athletes from participating in sports for girls and women.
HHS noted a violation notice to Maine State On February 25 and said that the State had violated title IX by allowing Trans athletes to participate in the sports of girls. HHS then extended the scope of the survey to include the main association and Greely High School.
The initial social media position of Libby identifying the Trans athlete caused national awareness of the situation in the state, and even preceded a public spit between Trump and Governor Janet Mills.
The controversy even prompted a protest against Mills called “March Against Mills”, which took place outside the Maine State House on Saturday morning. Several female athletes took the microphone during the march to denounce their democratic governor.
