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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Adrian Sainz and Kimberlee Kruesi

Ruling on Tennessee's anti-drag law leaves questions about enforcement, next steps

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As LGBTQ+ advocates celebrate a federal judge's ruling declaring Tennessee's so-called anti-drag show law unconstitutional, questions remain over whether the law will be enforced after the court declared that the decision only applied to the state's most populous county.

Last week, U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker ruled that the first-in-the-nation law was “unconstitutionally vague and substantially overbroad," and encouraged “discriminatory enforcement."

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