Supreme Court orders Maine legislature to revoke censure of Rep. Laurel Libby over trans athlete post

Maine state Rep. Laurel Libby spoke to Fox News Digital about her appeal to the Supreme Court, and the social media post that identified a trans athlete.

The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Maine state legislature to revoke its censure of GOP state representative Laurel Libby on Tuesday. Libby has been censured since Feb. 15 for a social media post that identified a transgender Maine high school athlete who won a girls' pole vault competition. 

In a 7-2 decision, the court ruled that Libby's entitlement to relief from the censure is "indisputably clear."

The GOP lawmaker celebrated the Supreme Court decision in an X post. 

"This is a victory not just for my constituents, but for the Constitution itself. The Supreme Court has affirmed what should NEVER have been in question — that no state legislature has the power to silence an elected official simply for speaking truthfully about issues that matter," Libby wrote. 

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FILE -State Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, speaks with a colleague, Feb. 14, 2023, at the State House in Augusta, Maine.  (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Meanwhile, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented. 

Jackson criticized the grant of emergency relief for Libby, and broader concerns of ‘shadow docket’ emergency appeals.'

"The watering down of our Court’s standards for granting emergency relief is, to me, an unfortunate development," Jackson said. "At the very least, by lowering the bar for granting emergency relief, the Court itself will bear responsibility for the resulting systemic disruption, as a surge in requests for our 'extraordinary' intervention—at earlier and earlier stages of ongoing lower court proceedings, and with