It shouldn’t have taken an intervention of the U.S. Supreme Court to restore (for now) the voting and speaking rights of Republican state Rep. Laurel Libby of Maine. You may recall she was suspended by the Democratic state house for saying something less than supportive of boys competing in girls’ sports.
As it happened, the vote was only 7-2 in favor of restoring Libby’s rights, temporarily. The New York Post reports,
A Maine Republican state lawmaker censured over a Facebook post knocking a transgender high school athlete cannot be barred from voting while her legal challenge plays out, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
The unsigned order granted state Rep. Laurel Libby’s request to restore her voting and speaking privileges – which were stripped in February by the Democratic-controlled Maine House of Representatives over her social media post.
Wishing her luck as the case plays out.
Here in Minnesota, we have a sitting state senator, awaiting trial for felony burglary, who has cast the deciding vote in the split chamber (34-33) every day for the past two years.
