Maine State Rep. Laurel Libby has filed a lawsuit against speaker of the house Ryan Fecteau after she was censored On February 15 for her social media post about a trans high school -athlete.
The lawsuit aims to have Libby’s voice and speaking rights repaired. Maine house Clerk Robert Hunt is mentioned as the other suspect in the lawsuit. Libby was originally told that she would have her rights repaired if she apologized for the post. However, she said that she will not apologize.
Libby’s censorship came in response to a social media post in which she pointed to a transaction worksheet in high school that a girls’ cloud competition won. The post ignited a rural controversy and a spit between Democrat Maine JUNET MILLS and President Donald Trump, as a result of which federal agencies are asked to start Title IX investigations against the State and School district where the athlete was registered.
A massive protest against Mills followed in the capital of Maina of Augusta.
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Maine State Rep. Laurel Libby has filed a lawsuit against the chairman of her State’s house after she was censored on 15 February. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty/File)
The basis of censorship by Fecteau and Maine Democrats was the function of Libby that identified a minor with a photo and by name. Libby and her lawyers, however, claim that the athlete had already been published in a positive light and competed on the public forum of a athletic event sponsored by the State.
“The championship was a public event, was streamed online and the names, schools and photos of the winners were all made public,” says a copy of the court case obtained by Fox News Digital.
Libby represents more than 9,000 voters in Maine’s House District 90, and six of them have registered the lawsuit as claimants because the censorship has impeded its assets to perform other legislative actions to serve those voters.
“The actions of the speaker not only denied me, but the thousands of voters I represent, and that is the bigger image here; the fact that the speaker in his eyes revened on me because he doesn’t like what I have to say,” Libby said.
Libby recently proposed a bill to expand access to sources for mental health care for residents of Maine, which she cannot help now. In the coming weeks, the Maine house will vote on the next biennial budget, and Libby will not vote on that either.
For Libby, the lawsuit is not only intended to restore her rights to her and her voters. She also says that it is an important step to take the national struggle to combat trans -inclusion in women’s sports.
“For whatever reason, Maine has become zero for this debate, and of course I want to have my voice back so that I can speak with it; and while we tackle this issue within the legislative power, I hope that everything that has happened in the debate in the coming weeks, but that not only Maine girls, but girls in the entire country, has been able to change Safe and Libby.”
Libby also encouraged Fcetau to easily restore its rights to prevent the case from being brought to court and the taxpayers of Maine to cost the price of potential lawsuits.
Fox News Digital has contacted the Fateau office for comment.
Meanwhile, Maine is being investigated by the US Department of Education and the Ministry of Health and Human Services (HHS) for potential title IX -violations about the refusal to comply with the recent executive order of Trump to prevent trans -athletes participating in girls and women’s sports.
HHS served a violation of violation to the State Maine On 25 February and the State declared the title IX broken by allowing transatletes to participate in girls sports. HHS later expanded the scope of the research with the Maine Principals Association and Greely High School.
Libby’s revelation of the Trans -Atleet led to national media reporting on the policy of the State for Trans -Inclusion after Maine had announced that it would not comply with the executive Order of Trump. Trump then promised to reduce financing to the state because he refused to follow his order.
The Mills office responded with a statement that endangered legal action against the Trump administration if it had remembered the federal financing of the state. Then Trump and Mills Verbaal sparkled in a broadly published argument in the White House during a two -part meeting of governors.
Only a few hours after that interaction, the US Department of Education announced that it would do it Research De State To allow transatletes to compete in girls sports and for potential title IX violations.
Protection was assigned to Greely High School.
The controversy even brought a protest against Mills called the “Mars Against Mills”, which took place outside of Maine’s State House on Saturday morning. Several female athletes took the microphone in the march to speak out against their democratic governor.
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A day later, eight Pro-Trans activists protested outside of Libby’s house in contrast to her views. They kept signs with the text “Shame about U laurel 4 exploits a child 4 your political gain” and “Protect Transjummeren”, according to The Maine thread.
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