This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
A state lawmaker in Maine who expressed her opinion regarding a male student portraying himself as a girl and winning a girls' pole vault state championship, and was censured by leftists in the legislature for doing that, already has sued for that infringement of her constitutional rights.
It is state Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, who posted on Facebook about the issue of transgenderism in public schools and, as a result, was censured by the state House, on a 75-70 vote that deprived her of her right to speak in the legislature, even vote.
Her posting simply included photos of the male athlete from both a boys competition a couple years ago and the girls competition this year.
Her legal action is against Maine Speaker of the House Ryan Fecteau, a Democrat, for the First Amendment speech violations as well as equal protection violations and the guarantee clause of Article IV of the Constitution, which protects the basic rights of political participation within state governments.
"I have the constitutional right to speak out, and my constituents have the right to full representation in the Maine House," Libby said in a statement shared with The Daily Signal. "Biological males have no place in girls sports. Our girls have every right, under federal law, to fair competition in sports. We will not let them be erased by the Democrat majority advancing a woke progressive agenda."
Now a report in the Federalist has revealed the judge likely to hear the case is a radical leftist activist.
All of the judges in Maine excused themselves from the case as apparently one of the male athlete's parents is a court employee, leaving Judge Melissa R. DuBose of Rhode Island the next in line to hear the case.
She is described in the report as "a far-left activist on LGBT and race issues and has spoken publicly about her ardent support — something well outside the norm for federal judges."
Libby, a Republican, has refused Democrat demands that she apologize for her opinions, even as the state policy that lets males say they are female and compete against girls is under federal investigation for apparent violations of civil rights law.
Libby said when the case was filed, "Instead of having an open and honest debate about the devastating impacts of Maine girls being forced to compete against biological males, Speaker Fecteau , and his Democratic colleagues resorted to canceling and silencing me, Speaker Fecteau and the Democrat majority are risking hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding for our schools by stubbornly refusing to address this injustice. I have the constitutional right to speak out and my constituents have the right to full representation in the Maine House. Biological males have no place in girls' sports. Our girls have every right, under federal law, to fair competition in sports. We will not let them be erased by the Democrat majority advancing a woke progressive agenda."
Judicial Crisis Network president Carrie Severino told The Federalist that DuBose "is a true radical."
"There's questions asked about whether she is capable of being impartial, and then, even if she ends up continuing to hear the case — I think it's important context as we're watching this case go through the court to realize this is — this is likely a judge that's going to already have a thumb on the scale on one side of this issue."
Democrats boasted when DuBose was nominated by Joe Biden that DuBose apparently was the "first openly LGBT judge" in the Rhode Island district.
It is her activism that is raising questions.
She signed a 2021 letter that appeared aimed at bringing a wholesale discrimination narrative into the judiciary, the report said.
