A federal judge ruled against the representative of the state of Maine Laurel Libby on Friday in his trial so that his censorship in the state legislature was canceled. Libby was censored on February 15 for a publication on social networks which identified a transgender athlete who won a girl’s pole jump title.
The judge who rendered the decision is the judge of the American district court of Rhode Island, Melissa Dubose, who was appointed by former president Joe Biden just before leaving his duties in January.
Dubose rejected Libby’s request on Friday for a preliminary injunction, judging the president of the process chamber, Ryan Fecteau, imposed to impose the sanction reflected the will of the majority of members of the Maine Chamber.
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Dubose chaired the case after each district judge of Maine refused to take it.
Judges John C. Nivison, John A. Woodcock, launches E. Walker, Karen F. Wolf, Stacey D. Neumann and Nancy Torresen signed challenges shortly after the case. No reason has been given.
Thus, the case went to Dubose in Rhode Island.
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Libby is “disappointed” by the decision but plans to call it and will bring the case to the Court of Appeal and, potentially, to the Supreme Court of the United States.
“I will certainly leave no stone not returned to make my voters their voice and vote,” Libby told Fox News Digital.
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 62 days.
This cost him the chance to vote on the biannual state budget and to propose a bill to extend access to mental health resources for residents.
With its remaining censorship in place, this will prevent Libby from voting or speaking to the ground of the chamber of a bill which would add the inclusion trans into the sports of girls to the constitution of the State.
His colleagues will vote on the bill of the Democratic Majority after its adoption with a slim majority in the House on Thursday, but will need a two -thirds majority in both chambers before being able to go there before the voters. If he was adopted, he would co -instruct in the Constitution of the State Maine Human Rights Act (MHRA), which protects the rights of transgender athletes to compete for the sports teams of the opposite sex.
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“I will not be able to vote on this subject,” said Libby.
The publication of the social media of Libby which prompted censorship plunged the whole state into an active legal battle with the administration of President Donald Trump on the issue of trans athletes in girls sports.
The United States Ministry of Justice has filed a trial Against the state for its current challenge on Trump’s executive decree “men of men out of women’s sport”. Maine has faced federal pressures in the past two months for its refusal to comply, including two federal surveys, a freezing freezing by the US Department of Agriculture and now a trial.
The Democratic Leadership of the State, led by Governor Janet Mills, retaliated, depositing their own legal action against Trump about the freezing of funding. Another federal judge has already ruled that the USDA must thaw funding.
“I am happy to go to court and plead the questions that are raised in this court complaint,” Mills told journalists on Thursday.
A survey on The American Parents Coalition noted that out of approximately 600 registered voters from Maine, 63% said that the participation of school sports should be based on organic sex, and 66% agreed that it was “fair to restrict the sports of women to organic women”.
The survey also revealed that 60% of residents would support a voting measure limiting participation In Sports for women and girls at Biological women. This included 64% of the self -employed and 66% of parents with children under the age of 18.
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