Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent to the Supreme Court issuing of a temporary injunction allowing a Main lawmaker, Laurel Libby, to speak and vote in her state’s house of representatives cited an unlikely authority — Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

The state’s attorney general had said such intervention by the justices would be unprecedented.

Trans athlete Soren Stark-Chessa finished first in the 1600-meter race at a recent track meet in Maine. Republican state representative Laurel Libby complained about Stark-Chessa’s win on a Fox News appearance, saying that trans athletes are “pushing many, many of our young women out of the way in their ascent to the podium”.

Quite a rhubarb has sprung up in respect of the Republican state representative in Maine who took to social media in the fray over transgender rights.