The Real Threat

The Supreme Court issued an emergency decision yesterday in an extremely unusual case. 

Maine State Rep. Laurel Libby spoke out against transgender athletes stealing sports honors from young women on her personal social media account. Democrats, who control the state House, censured her. But that wasn’t enough for them. 

They also banned her from speaking on the House floor and banned her from voting on legislation. As a result, Democrats disenfranchised thousands of Maine voters by gagging their representative and canceling her vote in the legislature.

Libby sued to restore her rights and appealed all the way to the Supreme Court for emergency relief while the merits of the case are debated in lower courts. The Trump Justice Department filed a brief supporting Rep. Libby. Yesterday, the Supreme Court restored her voting rights and her First Amendment right to speak.  

The shocking thing is that the court’s decision wasn’t unanimous. Two justices -- Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson -- would have allowed Libby to be gagged because leftist politicians didn’t like the commonsense, pro-woman position she took. 

They are the real threat to democracy! The intolerant, totalitarian Left wants to silence debate and force you to lie about biological reality. 

I hope Justice Amy Coney Barrett takes this case to heart. She voted right this time but has increasingly aligned herself with these two leftist justices on important issues.

Some have suggested she may actually believe that Donald Trump is a danger to democracy. Well, she doesn’t need to look down Pennsylvania Avenue for imagined threats at the White House. She can just look over at her two colleagues to see real threats to democracy. Maybe this decision will wake her up.