A federal judge once again ruled that Texas’ ban on some drag performances in public is “facially overbroad” and “unconstitutionally vague.”
Love that the governor’s own stupid posts were effectively used against him in a court of law. I expect reversal from SCOTUS for convoluted reasons.
The founding fathers never intended for social media to be a factor, and so it is inadmissible.
“We’re originalists!”
“Drag has always been a form of free expression, and it is a relief that the court recognized that today,” Bandit said in a statement. “We use our performances to assert liberation, power, and joy with our community. As a lifelong Texan, I’m sick of this state trying to censor art and stoke hatred and violence against drag artists and the LGBTQIA+ community. No one should be punished for performing drag."
The law, Senate Bill 12, bans bars and other businesses from hosting sexually oriented performances
Vague, indeed.
Does Texas not have strip clubs?
Hey hey hey now. This is about Texas and the United States so get that fuckin logic right the fuck out of here.
In all seriousness though the state of a nation’s laws is a direct measure of it’s stability and we’re at like 17/7 on the fully cooked scale.
Laws are only real if people are punished for them. The perfect law results is 100% of actual offenders being prosecuted and convicted.
Unfortunately the US is incredibly hypocritical and most laws exist to uphold white male Christian land owner values, so the perfect law is more like “one with enough plausible deniability that a white guy can get away with it while a black perdon goes to jail for 10-15 years”
Yes, but only the “good kind,” where cis-women are treated like property by men.
Well strippers would be the first to go.
Nah, anything Christian would be first. All about impregnation by a god, sexually explicit text, obsession with women’s sexuality, strangers’ genitals, covering up rape…
Quite the opposite. In my neck of the woods (the Bible Belt), there are tons of porn shops. They’ll just be going after the “wrong kinds” of porn and sexual exploitation.
“Porn should be only between a man and a woman, to be shared within the bounds of a loving, God-sanctioned Christian marriage where birth control is forbidden, anything other than vaginal sex is punishable by law and pulling out is banned.”
Their blockbuster porn hit will be, “Jesus, I can feel you inside me.”
Are drag shows sexually oriented?
My parents took me as a teen and my child siblings to a drag performance once.
There was definitely a “sexual” nature to it. But nothing i hadn’t seen literally everywhere else in the performance industry from pop stars to circuses, even cartoons, many commercials. Sex appeal is and always has been everywhere.
They just looked like generic women dancers to me. Mildly interesting, mildly boring.
I have no idea. That’s the point. What does that even mean?
Don’t worry, SCOTUS will find a way to disregard the first amendment and uphold the ban.
Is “facially overbroad” supposed to be some sort of anti-transfem slur?
No. Facial Overbreadth is a legal term saying that a law is too broad and restricts protected speech unreasonably.
A party may bring a facial challenge for an allegedly overbroad statute. A statute or restriction is overbroad if its reach exceeds its scope. In other words, it regulates more speech than intended or permitted by the Constitution.
Laws that are overbroad and extend their reach to protected speech will generally be invalidated in their entirety.
