US judge throws out Texas ban on drag acts, calls it unconstitutional
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(Corrects paragraph 5 to show the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas represented the plaintiffs, not the national ACLU) By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) -A federal judge in Texas ruled on Tuesday that the state’s new law limiting public drag performances was an unconstitutional restriction on speech and he permanently forbid enforcement of it. “Not all people will like or condone certain performances,” U.S. District Judge David Hittner wrote. “This is no different than a person’s opinion on certain comedy or genres of music, but that alone does not strip First Amendment protection.” More than …
