Montana trans lawmaker Zooey Zephyr sues state over censure

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Source: ABC News

Montana state legislator Zooey Zephyr is suing the state, House Speaker Matt Regier and Sergeant at Arms for the Montana House of Representatives Bradley Murfitt after being censured by House Republicans.

"The recent actions violate my 1st amendment rights, as well as the rights of my 11,000 constituents to representation," Zephyr said in a tweet Monday. "Montana's State House is the people's House, not Speaker Regier's, and I'm determined to defend the right of the people to have their voices heard."

Zephyr is petitioning for her legislative privileges and duties to be reinstated. Zephyr's calls to vote against a gender-affirming care ban for transgender youth on bill SB99 were ignored for days by Republican leaders on the House floor in April.

Some legislators, including Regier, argued she had broken House rules of decorum when she said legislators would have "blood on your hands" if they passed the transgender youth care ban.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/montana-trans-lawmaker-zooey-zephyr-sues-state-censure/story?id=98985747

[sheshe2]

1. Go Zooey!

[OMGWTF]

2. Good! I'm not a lawyer, but I bet it could have been a class-action suit since the Rethugs

are preventing her constituents from having a voice.

[2naSalit]

10. Indeed.

If they keep it up, could be the next step. The process in Montana seems different somehow but I am glad to see her fight for her constituents, we should all be so well represented. I have a good Rep. where I am but we need a lot more of these young people who are not afraid to stand up to this kind of abuse and don't lose their cool when passionately making their case.
That is hugh I tell ya.

[Marthe48]

3. I love her!

Courage!

[LiberalFighter]

4. Republicans push for freedom but they don't want others to live their freedom.

[NullTuples]

5. That really is the Calhoun / Buchannan / Modern GOP model of "Liberty"

See, "Democracy in Chains" by Nancy MacLean. In their worldview and legal arguments, Liberty - the term used in so many of our bedrock documents - specifically applies to wealthy, white men of privilege such as the Founders were. The idea is that they should not be hindered from being able to wield their privilege in any way they see fit.

[vlyons]

8. That's right, they want the freedom to

gerrymander the vote, purge people off the voter rolls, pay us a pittance for hourly wages, plaster their religious beliefs in public places, cheat on their taxes, control women's bodies, deny healthcare, let kids go hungry -- and on and on and on.

[MontanaMama]

6. Yessssssss!

Go get 'em Zooey. YOU ARE MONTANA.

[TomSlick]

7. Justice is on her side but I'm skeptical about the law.

First, the Montana legislative session is scheduled to end this week. The matter will soon be moot.

Second, courts will be hesitant to intervene in a legislature's internal affairs based on the separation of powers.

[2naSalit]

11. It will be interesting to see how it all turns out.

This is new territory for this state.

[LostOne4Ever]

9. Go Zooey

Take the fight to the fascists!!!

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12. TY Rep Zephyr & ACLU!

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13. Git 'em Zooey