BREAKING: A judge has rejected Montana Rep. Zooey Zephyr's effort to return to the state House after being censured.
for opposing gender-affirming health care for kids, cannot yet return to the statehouse House floor and participate in debate, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Attorneys for Zephyr and several of her Missoula constituents on Monday filed court papers seeking an emergency order allowing her to return to the House floor for the final days of the 2023 legislative session. "One legislator cannot be allowed to halt the ability of the other 99 to engage in civil, orderly, debate concerning issues affecting Montana," the state's lawyers wrote.
She's since been working from a bench in a hallway and, when that's been occupied, at a statehouse snack bar.
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