After Maine’s state representative, Laurel Libby, filed a lawsuit for his recent censorship for a publication of social networks that indicates a trans athlete in a girl’s competence, all federal judges of Maine have retired from the case.
The judges, John C. Nivison, John A. Woodcock, Lance E. Walker, Karen F. Wolf, Stacey D. Neumann and Nancy Torresen, signed disqualification orders on Tuesday, shortly after the case was initially presented. No reason for the challenges of the judges was provided. Since then, the case has been sent to the Rhode Island district, according to multiple reports.
Libby was censored by the State Representatives Chamber on February 25 in a 75-70 partisan vote. The basis of censorship was that Libby published a photograph and appointed a Trans athlete who was less than 18 years after the athlete won the first place for Grelyly High School in a state jumping competition with pole. But Libby and its lawyers argue that the athlete had already been publicized by other media before publication.
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The president of Maine House, Ryan Fecteau, who approved censorship, is the main accused in the lawsuit with the secretary of the representatives Robert Hunt. The Maine Attorney’s Office will represent Fecteau.
Libby’s demand seeks to restore voting and speech rights. Fecteau said previously that Libby rights would be restored when he apologized, but does not intend to apologize. Libby told Pak Gazette Digital in an interview on Tuesday that encourages Fecteau to restore their rights to avoid taking the case to court and costing taxpayers the price of any possible litigation.
Libby represents more than 9,000 components in the 90th district of the Maine House of Representatives, and six of them have signed in demand as plaintiffs because censorship has prevented its ability to help carry out other legislative actions to meet these components.
The representative of Maine Laurel Libby files a demand on censorship for calling the trans athlete in girls’ sports
The state representative of Maine, Laurel Libby, sounds the alarm for the challenge of the state of the executive order of President Donald Trump with the aim of ending the biological men who compete in women’s sports. (Getty | Maine Representatives House)
“The actions of the speaker not only deprived me of their rights, but they deprived the thousands of constituents that I represent, and that is the broader image here; the fact that the speaker, in his eyes, took reprisals against me because he does not like what I have to say,” Libby said.
For Libby, the demand is not only destined to restore their rights towards her and her voters. He also said that it is an important step in the national effort to combat trans inclusion in women’s sports.
“Maine, for any reason, has become the zero zone for this debate and, of course, I want to recover my voice to be able to talk to that; and by addressing this problem within the legislature, I hope that everything that has been developed in the coming weeks can help change the course in the debate, so that not only Maine’s girls, but the girls throughout the country, have a fair and safe play field,” Libby said.
On Tuesday, Maine also became the first state to see a reduction in federal financing to refuse to comply with the executive order of President Donald Trump to keep trans athletes out of women’s sports. The USDA issued a pause on all funds for the University of Maine system, which is a network of eight public universities in the state.
Maine is under investigation by the United States Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for possible violations of Title IX for its refusal to comply with Trump’s recent executive order to prevent Trans athletes from competing in girls and women’s sports.
HHS delivered a violation notice to MAINE STATE On February 25 and declared that the State violated title IX by allowing Trans athletes to compete in girls’ sports. Later, HHS expanded the scope of the investigation to include the Association of Directors of Maine and Grelyly High School.
The initial publication of Libby social networks that identified the Trans athlete caused the national conscience about the situation in the state, and even preceded a public dispute between Trump and Governor Janet Mills.
The controversy even prompted a protest against Mills called “march against Mills”, which took place outside the house of the state of Maine on Saturday morning. Several female athletes took the microphone in the march to speak against their Democratic governor.
