The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with a Maine Republican state representative who was banned from voting over her comments on social media about a transgender-identifying male high school athlete competing against girls.
Representative Laurel Libby was blocked from voting and speaking from the House floor after Democrats voted to censure her after she posted public images of a transgender-identifying high school boy taking first place in girls’ pole vaulting at Maine’s Class B state championship. The court on Tuesday blocked the state from stripping Libby of her voting rights as the case is litigated.
“The U.S. Supreme Court just restored the voice of 9,000 Mainers! After 2+ months of being silenced for speaking up for Maine girls, I can once again vote on behalf of the people of House District 90,” Libby wrote on social media in response to the ruling. “This is a win for free speech — and for the Constitution.”
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🚨 VICTORY!🚨
The U.S. Supreme Court just restored the voice of 9,000 Mainers!
After 2+ months of being silenced for speaking up for Maine girls, I can once again vote on behalf of the people of House District 90.
This is a win for free speech — and for the Constitution. 🇺🇸
— Rep. Laurel Libby (@laurel_libby) <a href="https://twitter.com/laurel_libby/status/1924903208603758744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
“This is a victory not just for my constituents, but for the Constitution itself,” Libby added in a separate <a href="https://x.com/laurel_libby/status/1924906132813885618">post</a>. “The Supreme Court has affirmed what should never have been in question, that no state legislature has the power to silence an elected official simply for speaking truthfully about issues that matter.”
Liberal Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor were the only two to side against Libby.
Democrats claimed that Libby&#8217;s social media post put the transgender-identifying boy at risk and voted to censure her, stripping her of the right to vote and speak on the House floor because she refused to apologize. Libby challenged her punishment, but lost at the district and appeals court levels before appealing to the Supreme Court in April.
“It would be a remarkable break from history to permit the continued disenfranchisement of thousands of Americans for their chosen representative’s protected speech,” Libby&#8217;s lawyers wrote.
The Trump administration has been at war with Maine after it has continued to allow males to compete in women&#8217;s sports in defiance of President Donald Trump&#8217;s executive orders. In response, the Trump administration froze federal funding for the state, and Attorney General Pam Bondi <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bondi-unleashes-on-maine-announces-new-lawsuit-against-state-for-violating-title-ix" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced a civil lawsuit</a> against the state.

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A 24-year-old Venezuelan man claiming to be a human trafficking victim attended an Ohio high school for over a year while posing as a 16-year-old, local law enforcement said.
Anthony Emmanuel Labrador Sierra, an adult male, attended Perrysburg High School near Toledo from January 2024 until last week after it was discovered he had lied about his age, the city&#8217;s police department said Tuesday. Sierra was arrested on Monday and charged with felony forgery charges after a woman came forward and said that he was the father of her child and that he was pretending to be a teenager.
The Perrysburg School District said that Sierra used forged documents to obtain legal guardianship, a Social Security number, an Ohio driver&#8217;s license, and Temporary Protected Status from deportation.
Sierra&#8217;s legal status is currently unknown, but the Department of Homeland Security tells The Daily Wire it is looking into the matter.
Local detective Ryan Merrow, who is investigating the incident, told The Daily Wire that the case is ongoing and that more charges may be coming. Merrow added that the school told him that Sierra was working with an &#8220;advocacy group&#8221; to obtain protected legal status in the United States.
He said that investigators believe that Sierra&#8217;s real birthdate is March 27, 2001, while the Venezuelan national claimed to be born on December 2, 2007 when he first moved to enroll in high school in November 2023. Sierra obtained a guardian family, which was contacted last week by a woman who said she had a child with him and that he was lying about his identity. The guardian family then contacted the school, which reached out to the police department on Monday.
Merrow said that the police department verified the documentation provided by the woman, proving that Sierra was lying about his identity. He added that any crime committed by Sierra at the school or involving students at the school would be handled by Perrysburg Police.
The school district said Tuesday that they were heartbroken when they found out that they had allowed a 24-year-old male to attend school among young teenagers.
&#8220;What’s most heartbreaking is how many responded in good faith. Staff and local families offered support to someone they believed was a vulnerable teen. Their compassion reflects the best of our community. Though trust was violated, we remain proud of those who chose to help,&#8221; the district said. &#8220;Student safety remains our highest priority. We are committed to transparency and to strengthening safeguards that protect every child in our schools.&#8221;
Ohio state lawmaker Josh Williams, who represents the district containing the school, said he was &#8220;deeply troubled&#8221; by the news and that the people &#8220;need answers&#8221; from the school system.
&#8220;I seriously doubt the school system&#8217;s ability to keep our students safe when it can&#8217;t even affirm the immigration status or age of this man,&#8221; Williams said. &#8220;I will be following up very soon with more detailed questions for the school district.&#8221;
&#8220;When local districts fail this most basic responsibility, you can believe the legislature will get involved,&#8221; he said.
Rampant fraud has been found in many of the immigration programs that were implemented under President Joe Biden, including his parole program that released thousands of migrants into the country. A report from the Department of Homeland Security <a href="https://cis.org/Arthur/DHS-Pauses-Its-Illegal-CHNV-Parole-Program-Amidst-Fraud-Concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> that just a few thousand people were applying to &#8220;sponsor&#8221; over 100,000 migrants.

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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ripped into the World Health Organization (WHO) as a “moribund” institution under undue influence from China in a Tuesday message to the organization’s governing assembly. 
In a video message shown at the World Health Assembly in Switzerland on Tuesday, Kennedy called for nations to follow America’s lead and create new health-focused institutions. His address comes after President Donald Trump issued an executive order in January <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-orders-u-s-to-withdraw-from-world-health-organization?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Orders+U.S.+To+Withdraw+From+World+Health+Organization" target="_blank" rel="noopener">withdrawing</a> the United States from the WHO, citing its handling of the COVID pandemic and “onerous payments.”
“Like many legacy institutions, the WHO has become mired in bureaucratic bloat, entrenched paradigms, conflicts of interest, and international power politics,” Kennedy said Tuesday. “While the United States has provided the lion’s share of the organization’s funding historically, other countries such as China have exerted undue influence over its operations in ways that serve their own interests and not particularly the interests of the global public.”
During COVID, Kennedy said that the WHO suppressed reports of human-to-human transmission and worked at the behest of China to promote the “fiction” that COVID originated from bats and not a government-sponsored lab in Wuhan. 
“Not only has the WHO capitulated to political pressure from China, it’s also failed to maintain an organization characterized by transparency and fair governance by and for its Member States,” Kennedy said. “The WHO often acts like it has forgotten that its members must remain accountable to their own citizens and not to transnational or corporate interests.”
He said the international health body has reflected the biases of corporate medicine and has pushed “harmful gender ideology” at the expense of wellness. 
Kennedy said he would like to see other public health officials reboot their entire systems, pointing to the changes he has implemented in the United States. He cited his department&#8217;s focus on chronic health issues, removing dyes and additives from food, investigating the cause of autism, and moving away from processed foods. 
“Global cooperation on health is still critically important to President Trump and myself, but it isn’t working very well under the WHO as the failures of the COVID era demonstrate,” he said. “I urge the world&#8217;s health ministers and the WHO to take our withdrawal from the organization as a wake-up call.”
The World Health Assembly is made up of member nations that determine the WHO&#8217;s policies, budget, and leadership.
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Like many legacy institutions, the WHO has become mired in bureaucratic bloat, entrenched paradigms, conflicts of interest, and international power politics. While the United States has provided the lion’s share of the organization’s funding historically, other countries such as… <a href="https://t.co/VvWbVBkb6M">pic.twitter.com/VvWbVBkb6M</a>
— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) <a href="https://twitter.com/SecKennedy/status/1924790453682970951?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2025</a></blockquote>

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The Trump administration is investigating the City of Chicago after Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson bragged about the number of black people he has hired.
The Justice Department informed Johnson on Monday of the probe just one day after he appeared at a church and suggested that he had staffed his administration based on race. In a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/crt/media/1400811/dl?inline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a>, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon told Johnson that the investigation would examine whether the city violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits racial discrimination in employment.
Dhillon told Johnson the investigation was “based on information suggesting that you have made hiring decisions solely on the basis of race.”
On Sunday, Johnson <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcD_HXIFQW4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared</a> at the Apostolic Church of God in Woodlawn and talked about the racial makeup of his administration. He also emphasized hiring “our people.” 
“When we say ‘our people hire our people,’ I just want to name this,” he said, pointing out how the percentage of white people in the mayor&#8217;s office had dramatically decreased during his administration making it &#8220;the most diverse administration in the history of Chicago.”
Johnson&#8217;s office later <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-department-justice-opens-civil-rights-investigation-chicago-hiring-practices-letter-mayor-brandon-johnson/16472280/">released</a> demographics of staffers in the mayor&#8217;s office, indicating 34.3% are black, 30.5% are white, 23.8% are Hispanic, and 6.7% are Asian. 
He then went on to suggest that black people should be in charge because they would govern for the greater good.  
“There are some detractors that will push back on me and say, ‘The only thing that mayor, the mayor, talks about is the hiring of black people.&#8217; No, what I’m saying is, when you hire our people, we always look out for everybody else,” he said. “We are the most generous people on the planet. I don’t know too many cultures that have play cousins. That’s how generous we are. We just make somebody a family member, right. That’s just how we are.” 
He then went on to list senior positions in his administration staffed by black people. 
&#8220;Business and economic neighborhood development, the deputy mayor is a black woman. The Department of Planning and Development is a black woman. Infrastructure deputy mayor is a black woman. Chief operations officer is a black man. Budget director is a black woman. Senior advisor is a black man. And I&#8217;m laying that out because when you ask, how do we ensure that our people get a chance to grow their business? Having people in my administration that will look out for the interest of everyone — and everyone means you have to look out for the interest of black folks, because that hasn&#8217;t happened.&#8221;
Dhillon said that these comments prompted the question of whether similar racially based hiring decisions were being made systematically throughout the city’s government. 
“Considering these remarks, I have authorized an investigation to determine whether the City of Chicago is engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination as set forth above,” Dhillon said. “If these kind of hiring decisions are being made for top-level positions in your administration, then it begs the question whether such decisions are also being made for lower-level positions.”
Johnson responded to the investigation by saying he was proud to lead the most “diverse administration in the history of our city.”

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A Virginia school district official conspired to “skirt” restrictions on transgender ideology in schools, prompting a Title IX &#8220;expert&#8221; to praise her &#8220;clever&#8221; workaround, emails shared with The Daily Wire reveal.
On January 22, 2025, Leah Bressler, Montgomery County Public Schools&#8217; Title IX compliance officer, corresponded with the Association of Title IX Administrators about ways to respond to Trump&#8217;s expected executive actions on transgender ideology. In the email exchange, obtained by Speech First and shared with The Daily Wire, Bressler proposed altering the district&#8217;s code of conduct in a way to keep its current “gender identity protections” in place. 
In response, Brett Sokolow, the chair of the advisory board for the Association of Title IX Administrators, said that he didn’t know if Bressler’s proposal would successfully “skirt” executive action, but that it may be worth it to “go down fighting.” 
The exchange, with the subject line “Implications of EO,” occurred two days after Trump’s inauguration. 
“This is just a brainstorm&#8230;.What if the system just moved to a code of conduct that provided the Title IX framework to any allegation for any reason that violated the Davis standard?&#8221; Bressler wrote. &#8220;With support services, monitoring, documentation as required in Title IX — but open the gate to entire conduct policy? Our jurisdiction has protections in our policy manual for gender identity &#8211; if the policies applied to everything equally across the board- couldn&#8217;t the system maintain the protections?”
The Davis Standard refers to federal guidelines that stipulate schools can only be held liable for sexual harassment and violations of Title IX if they have knowledge of, and are indifferent to, sexual harassment.
In response, Sokolow said that Bressler may have come up with a “clever” way to get past Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s (R) Department of Education, which holds that Title IX allows schools to restrict bathroom use by sex. 
“This is too state-specific for me to really be able to opine on, Leah. It&#8217;s clever, but I have no idea if it would work to skirt the limitations that VA is enacting. My suspicion is that state legislatures will punish cleverness, in the long run (see Texas). Meaning, that if school officials like you find legit ways to work around the state limitations, the state will learn from this and respond by tightening its limitations,” Sokolow replied. 
“This might be a viable strategy for you, or at least a good delaying tactic, but I don&#8217;t think it has legs in the long term. I think if it walks like a Title IX duck, it&#8217;s not going to matter what container we place it in. But, fight the good fight. I&#8217;m just giving you thoughts on whether your idea is a winner&#8230;but it might be good to go down fighting,” he added. 
That email came two days after Trump signed an executive order on “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism,” which rescinded the Biden administration&#8217;s application of Title IX to gender identity. He later signed an executive order that directed federal funding away from schools that push gender ideology on students. 
Current Montgomery County Public Schools <a href="https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/mcps/Board.nsf/goto?open&amp;id=BX9PB26040F9#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policies</a> stipulate that students are allowed to use the bathroom or locker room of their choice based on their gender identity, meaning that males are allowed into female restrooms and changing areas.
When asked by The Daily Wire if it consults on bypassing federal regulations, the Association of Title IX Administrators said that it does “not provide legal advice.” 
“ATIXA often discusses with members the challenges of competing and unclear federal, state, and court standards, and we encourage our members to explore the contours of these challenges fully to best assess how their schools, districts, and institutions should respond to a dynamic legal environment related to sex discrimination,” the organization said. 
A similar dynamic has played out across the country as liberal school officials have resisted Trump’s efforts to purge leftist ideology from federally funded schools and empower parents concerned about political indoctrination.  
Speech First Acting Executive Director Nicole Neily called for Congress to step into the fight over Title IX.
&#8220;It&#8217;s appalling — albeit unsurprising — that Title IX administrators seem to be determined to circumvent the very laws they&#8217;re supposed to be enforcing,” Neily said. “America&#8217;s girls are little more than collateral damage in these activists&#8217; larger political war, which is why it&#8217;s imperative that Congress steps in to provide certainty and clarity and end these games.&#8221;

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The vast majority of Americans support President Donald Trump&#8217;s actions to make medical prices more transparent, according to an <a href="https://www.patientrightsadvocate.org/prapollingmemomay2025" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exclusive poll</a> shared with The Daily Wire.
The poll from Echelon Insights found that most Americans, including Democrats and independents, support Trump&#8217;s February executive order that requires hospitals and insurers to display the actual costs of treatment, not just estimates. Of those surveyed, 74% of Democrats, 83% of independents, and 91% of Republicans said they supported Trump&#8217;s policy proposal.
“Voters overwhelmingly think that patients should get real, actual prices for healthcare services before they receive them – and also don’t think that is currently what patients get in our healthcare system,&#8221; pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson wrote in a memo shared with The Daily Wire. &#8220;As a result, they strongly support leaders trying to do something about the issue, enforcing radical price transparency measures and going bold on this issue.”
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The poll, commissioned by PatientsRightsAdvocate.org, surveyed over 2,000 likely voters from April 21-23. The organization previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/patients-group-praises-trump-for-radical-health-care-executive-order" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rolled out</a> a billboard campaign in Times Square and outside the Department of Health and Human Services, which thanked Trump for the executive order.
In the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-announces-actions-to-make-healthcare-prices-transparent/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a>, Trump directed his administration to ensure that hospitals make “more meaningful price information available to patients to support a more competitive, innovative, affordable, and higher quality healthcare system.” Trump directed the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services Secretaries to come up with guidance to enforce the transparency regulations intended to increase competition among health care providers. The goal is to mandate that hospitals list more explicitly the price of different treatments and care.
The poll also found that 96% of Americans agree that they “deserve to know the price of their healthcare before they receive it,&#8221; and over 90% agree that it wasn&#8217;t fair to require financial agreements to cover all medical costs not covered by insurance before having an accurate estimate of the cost.
Republican strategist David Kochel said that the issue of pricing transparency could be a winning issue for Republicans, saying his family was charged $15,000 for a $170 EpiPen for his son.
&#8220;Voters are tired of being blindsided by outrageous hospital bills and hidden costs,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They want real accountability and the power to make informed choices about their care. The GOP should be shouting this from the rooftops: we’re the party that fights for fairness, choice, and affordability in healthcare. By championing transparency, we side with consumers over special interests, with small businesses over big industry, and with families over the status quo.&#8221;
Last week, Trump took more <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-signs-order-to-reduce-drug-prices-tells-rest-of-world-to-pay-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive action</a> on health care, signing a directive seeking to make drug prices in America comparable to the rest of the world by slashing bureaucracy.

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