After speaking out against male athletes competing against female athletes, Maine state representative Laurel Libby was denied the right to vote and talk on the floor by the Speaker. After all Maine federal district court judges resigned, her complaint against the speaker is now being heard by a Rhode Island far-left activist prosecutor.
In a 75-70 vote, Libby, a Republican, received the first criticism for posting an image of a female athlete grabbing first position from his female competitors in a track and field competition on social media. As long as the female claims to be female, the country’s sports policy allows female competitors to compete against female competitors.
A national investigation has determined that Maine’s legislation is in violation of civil rights because it doesn’t protect female students at school. The analysis began after Gov. Supporting the plan, Rep. Janet Mills, D-Maine, attempted to challenge President Donald Trump at the White House about national guidelines that warned states that if they continued to violate the civil rights of girls and women in education.
However, Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau fully disenfranchised her constituents after she received criticism for opposing the plan. Fecteau was sued in federal judge by Libby and several components in return.
Speaker Fecteau and his Democrat colleagues resorted to cancelling and silencing me in a speech after filing, Libby said in a statement in response to the registration.” Rather of having an open and honest discussion about the damaging effects of Maine women being forced to compete against natural men, we resorted to having an open and honest discussion about the damaging effects of. By steadfastly refusing to address this injustice, Speaker Fecteau and the Democratic majority are putting hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding to our schools at risk. My constituents have the right to full representation in the Maine House, and I do so under the terms of the Constitution. Male biologicals are not allowed to play in girls ‘ sports. Our girls deserve fair, impartial sports competition, as permitted by federal law. We will not allow the Democratic majority, which is pushing a woke progressive agenda, to obliterate them.
Every judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine recused themselves from presiding over the case in an unprecedented move, citing in a clarification that one parent of the male athlete about whom Libby posted is actually a member of the court’s staff.
Although the widespread recusal may be a reasonable interpretation of ethics, according to Judicial Crisis Network president Carrie Severino, it now signifies that the case is being heard by Rhode Island U.S. District Judge Melissa R. DuBose, who is a far-left activist on LGBT and racial issues and has publicly expressed her fervent support, which is far beyond the norm for federal judges.
Severino claimed that the judge in Rhode Island is a” true radical”. ” As we’re watching this case go through the court, we’re watching this case go through the court realize this is likely a judge that’s going to be already have a thumb on the scale on one side of this issue,” the judge said.” I think it’s important context because we’re watching this case go through the court.”
After former President Joe Biden appointed her, DuBose was confirmed by the Senate with a 51-47 majority. Because she is apparently the first openly LGBT judge to serve on the Rhode Island District Court, leftist rag CNN was bloated about the appointment, calling it a “meaningful representation” in federal courts.
However, her being LGBT does not account for her perceived impartiality; rather, it is her open activism that is worrying.
DuBose, a judge for the Rhode Island state district court, signed a letter on March 21, 2021 that appeared to be an attempt by her and her colleagues to integrate the 2020 “national racial reckoning” and comprehensive discrimination narrative into the judiciary, a body that only functions if it is perceived as impartial.
The letter states that” we are committed to confronting this country’s “original sin” of slavery and its progeny, including racial discrimination and institutional racism, in our judicial system.” We want to assure the underrepresented, Black, Latino, Latina, LGBTQ, and all other communities that Rhode Island’s courts are their courts and that we will uphold our constitutional right to ensure that all people receive equal treatment under the law.
Severino claimed that the letter violated the law and that he should apologize to the Federalist, saying,” This is someone who has already gone beyond, in my opinion, the normal legal boundaries, and she’s now sitting on this case.”
She said,” The ethics mavens are unapologetically nowhere to be found.”
However, despite the fact that DuBose and many of her coworkers signed the letter, it did acknowledge how unconstitutional it was for a judge to sign such a politically charged and obviously partial letter.
The Judiciary has a tradition of keeping comments on both custom and judicial canons, and it does not make jurisprudential remarks regarding civic engagement. However, it is necessary that we raise our voices and reiterate our commitment to the just and equitable treatment of every person who comes before us in light of the fact that this is a moment of inflection for our state and the nation.
As Lena Zwarensteyn, senior director of the fair courts program at The Leadership Conference stated on CNN,” As LGBTQ rights are being being litigated across the country, it is increasingly clear that we need judges at all levels of the judiciary who understand what’s at stake and who know that many of these cases are fundamentally about the ability of queer people in America to live authentically and with dignity, we need judges at all levels of the judiciary who understand what’s at stake.”
The expectation that DuBose will be an activist was shared by University of Kansas politics professor Don Haider-Markel, who wrote the book Out and Running: Gay and Lesbian Candidates, Elections, and Policy Representation.
He claimed that “we’ve seen these judges do have a pattern of decision-making that is different from what we see from judges as being primarily white men.” We anticipate that LGBTQ judges ‘ decision-making will be different from that of the typical cisgender White male.
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., confronted DuBose at her confirmation hearing, where it was revealed that she had experienced a” Marxist phase” after telling Kennedy that she had “never been a Marxist and I am not a Marxist today.”
The Federalist’s election correspondent is Breccan F. Thies. He previously covered issues of culture and education for Breitbart News and the Washington Examiner. He is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow and holds a degree from the University of Virginia. You can follow him on Twitter at @BreccanFThies.
