by Charlton Allen, American Thinker:
If Democrats in Vacationland thought the censure of Rep. Laurel Libby would put an end to the education policy debate surrounding Title IX—and the participation of biological men in women’s sports—they’ve misread the moment, misread federal law, and badly misread their voters.
What was meant to silence dissent has only amplified it. What was supposed to end the debate has cracked it wide open.
In March, I wrote about how Democrats’ schizophrenic treatment of women’s sports—both existential and irrelevant, depending on the news cycle—was a political liability that helped cost them the 2024 election. Today, in Maine, that liability is becoming a full-blown revolt.
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And yet, what are Governor Janet Mills and House Speaker Ryan Fecteau doing with this information? They’re ignoring it—and worse, they’re escalating.
While federal agencies investigate the University of Maine for potential Title IX violations, Maine Democrats are pushing legislation to mandate LGBTQ+ curriculum across public schools—from kindergarten through twelfth grade. It’s not enough to censure dissent. Now, they want to codify orthodoxy.
Libby was not just censured—her constituents were effectively erased from the legislative process for the audacity of posting two photos that exposed a truth the left couldn’t rebut. Fifth place in the boys’ division. First place in the girls’. One athlete. No words needed.
Fecteau reacted like a scalded Maine Coon Cat, clawing wildly at the messenger instead of addressing the message. They couldn’t defend the policy—so they weaponized the rhetoric instead.
Significantly, this week the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 7–2 decision, issued a temporary order restoring Rep. Libby’s right to vote. It was a no-brainer—a textbook constitutional violation if ever there were one. The majority found the right to relief was “indisputably clear.”
And it is. The Court’s intervention didn’t just correct procedural abuse—it affirmed that Libby’s punishment wasn’t merely petty, but unconstitutional.
As Victor Davis Hanson noted in The Daily Signal, Governor Mills’s defiance increasingly resembles the nullification efforts of the antebellum South. It’s a fitting historical echo—and a dangerous one.
Some on the left now howl about “states’ rights”—their sudden fealty to the John C. Calhoun wing of the Democratic Party is nothing short of miraculous. The same party that once marched under the banner of federal supremacy now defies it without hesitation—so long as it advances their agenda and a Republican occupies 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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