A federal judge temporarily halted Tennessee’s bill that restricts public drag performances on Friday, hours before it was set to take effect on Saturday.
Judge Thomas L. Parker sided with Friends of George’s, a Memphis-based LGBTQ theatre group that filed suit against the state. “If Tennessee wishes to exercise its police power in restricting speech it considers obscene, it must do so within the constraints and framework of the United States Constitution,” Parker wrote, citing constitutional protections of freedom of speech. “The Court finds that, as it stands,...
Judge Thomas L. Parker sided with Friends of George’s, a Memphis-based LGBTQ theatre group that filed suit against the state. “If Tennessee wishes to exercise its police power in restricting speech it considers obscene, it must do so within the constraints and framework of the United States Constitution,” Parker wrote, citing constitutional protections of freedom of speech. “The Court finds that, as it stands,...
- 4/1/2023
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
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