{"id":6347,"date":"2025-06-08T00:14:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T00:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/doj-tells-1st-circuit-legislators-punishment-for-post-opposing-trans-athlete-is-unconstitutional\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T00:14:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T00:14:04","slug":"doj-tells-1st-circuit-legislators-punishment-for-post-opposing-trans-athlete-is-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/doj-tells-1st-circuit-legislators-punishment-for-post-opposing-trans-athlete-is-unconstitutional\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Tells 1st Circuit Legislator&#8217;s Punishment for Post Opposing Trans Athlete Is Unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>The U.S. Department of Justice&#8217;s top civil rights official urged a federal appeals court Thursday to block as unconstitutional a state representative&#8217;s Laurel Libby\u2019s punishment for her online post criticizing a transgender student athlete\u2019s sports win.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>Assistant U.S. Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit that the Maine legislature violated Rep. Laurel Libby&#8217;s First Amendment right to free speech when it barred her from voting and speaking on the legislative floor. Dhillon, who heads the DOJ&#8217;s Civil Rights Division, added that stripping Libby&#8217;s voting rights disregarded her constituents&#8217; right to representation in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Justice&#8217;s top civil rights official urged a federal appeals court Thursday to block as unconstitutional a state representative&#8217;s Laurel Libby\u2019s punishment for her online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1615,2460,610,1343,6230,1137,1228,6231,3350,3392,3696],"class_list":["post-6347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-1st","tag-athlete","tag-circuit","tag-doj","tag-legislators","tag-opposing","tag-post","tag-punishment","tag-tells","tag-trans","tag-unconstitutional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347","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=6347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}