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The representative of the state of Maine, Laurel Libby, said on Monday that she would appeal to the Supreme Court for emergency intervention after the legislators censored it on an article on social networks on a transgender athlete.
The republican legislator will ask the Supreme Court to correct a decision of the American district court, which ruled against Libby in his quest for a preliminary injunction to prevent the sanction.
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The representative of the State Laurel Libby speaks with a colleague, on February 14, 2023, at the State House in Augusta, in Maine. (AP photo / Robert F. Bukaty, file)
“For more than 100 days, my voters have had their say to any extent taken by their government, actions that have a direct impact on their lives,” said Libby in a statement on Monday. “Each vote withdrawn from the parquet floor of the Legislative Assembly is a vote that my voters cannot recover, the right people in our district have been reduced to silence and deprived of their rights.
“We hope that the Court will act quickly to stop the continuous violation of the Democrats of the Constitution and the suppression of dissident votes, even if the wider case continues through the call process.”
The Democrats of Maine trying to modify the constitution of the State to codify the authorization of trans athletes in the sports of girls
The state representative Laurel Libby filed an emergency call to the Supreme Court. (PK Press Club)
The Democratic majority of the State voted for censoring it for having written an article on social networks which identified a trans athlete who won a state pole jump competition in February. Libby filed a complaint against the president of the Ryan Fecteau Chamber to be canceled, but the judge of the US District Court of Rhode Island, Melissa Dubose, ruled against Libby earlier this month.
The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals also ruled against Libby.
Libby previously told PK Press Club Digital that she was ready to carry her case before the Supreme Court.
“Our appeal asks the court to correct this abuse of power and to reaffirm that legislative leadership cannot use procedural maneuvers and bring back affirmations of immunity to the touch of dissident votes and favors entire communities,” PK Press Club Digital said in a statement.
“I remain optimistic that the court will recognize what is clearly at stake: the integrity of the representative government and the fundamental principle that no elected official, no legislative leader, and no partisan majority is above the Constitution. The people of the district 90 of the Chamber do not deserve a complete representation, and we intend to see that the law has restored.”
Libby represents 9,000 voters in the 90th district of Maine and could not speak or vote on their behalf in the state legislature for two months.
The United States Supreme Court on November 15, 2023 in Washington. (AP photo / Mariam Zuhaib, file)
Dubose said in its decision that the sanction “is not as extraordinary to erase the formidable shield that the courts provided to legislative acts”.
