The US supreme court has restored Maine lawmaker Laurel Libby’s right to vote in the state house for the time being, saying in a brief order that she cannot be censured and barred from voting despite a controversial post on social media about a transgender student athlete.
The court’s decision did not explain its reasoning, though two of the court’s liberal justices, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented. Jackson said in her scathing dissenting opinion that she did not think Libby had met the high bar required for supreme court intervention.
