The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday said the Maine House of Representatives must restore voting powers to a state lawmaker who was censured by her colleagues over a social media post criticizing a trans high school athlete for competing in a girls’ pole vaulting event in February.
Over the dissents of Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, the court ruled that the Maine legislature must count votes from Rep. Laurel Libby, a Republican stripped of her vote after she refused to publicly apologize for the post. The court did not explain its reasoning, as is typical in “emergency” appeals.