{"id":5949,"date":"2025-05-20T21:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T21:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/supreme-court-restores-vote-to-maine-lawmaker-censured-over-post-about-trans-student-athlete\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T21:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T21:18:06","slug":"supreme-court-restores-vote-to-maine-lawmaker-censured-over-post-about-trans-student-athlete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/supreme-court-restores-vote-to-maine-lawmaker-censured-over-post-about-trans-student-athlete\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Restores Vote to Maine Lawmaker Censured Over Post About Trans Student Athlete"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>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&#8217; pole vaulting event in February.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>Over the dissents of Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, the court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/24pdf\/24a1051_h3ci.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ruled <\/a>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 &#8220;emergency&#8221; appeals. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2460,6029,143,6028,673,1228,6027,748,533,3392,3317],"class_list":["post-5949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-athlete","tag-censured","tag-court","tag-lawmaker","tag-maine","tag-post","tag-restores","tag-student","tag-supreme","tag-trans","tag-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}