Laurel Libby, a Republican Maine State senator who was censured for expressing displeasure over transgender athletes in women’s sports, has appealed to the Supreme Court to make sure her votes are counted when she performs her legislative duties in the Maine House next time.
Libby had been a top voice against transgender athletes in the female voice in Maine and had criticized the Maine government for their clear stubbornness on the issue.
Before she was banned, she appeared at a press conference held by the Justice Department to announce that they had sued the state of Maine for rejecting Trump’s ban on transgender athletes in high school sports.
After her appearance, the Maine legislative House banned her from speaking or voting when they made any decision.
While openly criticizing the weirdness of transgender athletes in women’s sports, Libby took it a step further, posting the names and pictures of transgender athletes who competed in an indoor track and field event in a Maine High School.
She was particularly gunning for a transgender girl who competed as a boy the previous year without winning anything and then went on to win the indoor event as a girl.
Laurel’s lawyers have been relentless in their appeals, trying to get the court to see how wrong it was to ban an elected legislative member from voting in the House of Representatives.
“That refusal to count a duly elected legislator’s vote is unprecedented in Maine. Only three other legislators have been censured in Maine’s 200-year history,” they wrote in their appeal.
