Source: WMTW News
“The Supreme Court on Tuesday found that the Maine Legislature must count the votes of a Republican lawmaker who was censured after she identified a transgender teen athlete in a viral social-media post. The court majority sided with Rep. Laurel Libby after she filed an emergency appeal asking for her votes to be counted while her lawsuit over the punishment plays out. There were two noted dissents, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson. The majority did not explain its reasoning, as is typical on the court’s emergency docket. Jackson, for her part, said the case doesn’t seem to be an emergency needing attention from the justices now, since there are no significant upcoming votes where her vote could change the outcome. ‘The watering down of our Court’s standards for granting emergency relief is, to me, an unfortunate development,’ Jackson said in her dissenting opinion.” (05/20/25)
https://www.wmtw.com/article/supreme-court-sides-with-maine-lawmaker-laurel-libby/64829109