Trump-appointed federal judge rules Tennessee's anti-drag show law is 'unconstitutional'

A federal judge in Tennessee has ruled that a state law limiting public drag show performances represented an “unconstitutional restriction on the freedom of speech.” “As a matter of text alone, the (Adult Entertainment Act) is a content, and viewpoint-based restriction on speech. The AEA was passed for the impermissible purpose of chilling constitutionally-protected speech,” US District Court Judge Thomas Parker, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, said in a 70-page late-Friday ruling. Parker, who called the law “unconstitutionally vague and substantially overbroad,” also barred the defendant in the...