{"id":1923501,"date":"2023-05-03T11:55:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T15:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/montana-transgender-lawmakers-bid-to-overturn-removal-from-house-floor-denied\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T11:58:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T15:58:09","slug":"montana-transgender-lawmakers-bid-to-overturn-removal-from-house-floor-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/montana-transgender-lawmakers-bid-to-overturn-removal-from-house-floor-denied\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana transgender lawmaker&#8217;s attempt to reverse ejection from House floor rejected."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmontana-transgender-lawmakers-bid-to-overturn-removal-from-house-floor-denied%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1923501&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Montana Lawmaker Continues to Vote Remotely After Being Censured<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0503\/57692f5b-a15a-4c9f-aa7f-75c0832b7250\/audio.mp3?length=3646989&#038;duration=304\"><\/div>\n<p>Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nhl-promoted-trans-hockey-tournament-dominated-by-guys\/\" title=\"NHL-Promoted Trans Hockey Tournament Dominated by Guys\">bisexual trans woman<\/a>, will continue to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-leader-mccarthy-vows-to-end-proxy-voting-on-the-very-first-day-of-a-republican-house\/\" title=\"GOP Leader McCarthy Vows to End Proxy Voting \u2018On the Very First Day\u2019 of a Republican House\">cast votes remotely<\/a> for the remainder of the legislative session after being censured by the GOP-led House. District Court Judge Mike Menahan denied Zephyr&#8217;s bid to return to the House floor, citing the separation of powers between the judicial and legislative branches. <\/p>\n<h3>Disciplinary Action<\/h3>\n<p>Lawmakers voted 68-32 to ban Zephyr from voting on the House floor after breaking decorum during a debate over a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/montana-transgender-lawmakers-bid-to-overturn-removal-from-house-floor-denied\/\" title=\"Montana transgender lawmaker's attempt to reverse ejection from House floor rejected.\">bill banning transgender medical procedures<\/a> for minors. Zephyr told fellow lawmakers, &#8220;The only thing I will say is if you vote yes on this bill and yes on these amendments I hope the next time there&#8217;s an invocation when you bow your heads in prayer, you see the blood on your hands.&#8221; Zephyr&#8217;s remarks were condemned by the Montana Freedom Caucus, a group of conservative lawmakers, who called Zephyr&#8217;s remarks &#8220;hateful rhetoric&#8221; and demanded an apology. Zephyr refused to apologize and was initially censured before being removed days later after a protest broke out in the House gallery among the lawmakers&#8217; supporters, some of whom were reportedly arrested.<\/p>\n<h3>Legal Ruling<\/h3>\n<p>Judge Menahan&#8217;s ruling means that Zephyr, 34, will remain barred from the House floor and gallery for the rest of the legislative session, which ends later this week. The Montana Constitution grants each house of the Montana legislature the authority to &#8220;expel or punish a member for good cause.&#8221; The judge noted that &#8220;Because the constitution explicitly reserves this power for the Legislature, the Court&#8217;s powers are conversely limited.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Real Consequences<\/h3>\n<p>Zephyr later clarified that the lawmaker was referring to the &#8220;real consequences&#8221; the House votes could have on the LGBT community. Speaking to House lawmakers ahead of the disciplinary vote, Zephyr said: &#8220;When I rose up and said &#8216;there is blood on your hands,&#8217; I was not being hyperbolic. I was speaking to the real consequences of the votes that we, as legislators, take in this body. And when the speaker asks me to apologize on behalf of decorum, what he is really asking me to do is be silent when my community is facing bills that get us killed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>Despite the ruling, Zephyr will continue voting on various bills remotely. Republican lawmakers argued that protests had put their safety at risk. Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte, a Republican, has not commented on the situation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr\u2019s bid to return to the House floor was quashed by a judge on May 2, meaning the lawmaker will continue to cast votes remotely for the remainder of the\u00a0legislative session. District Court Judge Mike Menahan said in a five-page ruling (pdf)\u00a0that the court lacked the authority to overrule the GOP-led<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":1923502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[7900,25709,5426,3653,3673,8605,7298,4801,4019],"class_list":["post-1923501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-attempt","tag-ejection","tag-floor","tag-house","tag-lawmakers","tag-montana","tag-rejected","tag-reverse","tag-transgender"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1923502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}