A new Tennessee law restricting drag performances in public was temporarily blocked by a federal judge who ruled the politically charged statute may have “missed the mark.”
The law, which had been set to take effect Saturday, was put on hold for at least two weeks in a ruling late Friday by U.S. District Judge Thomas L. Parker in Memphis, Tennessee, an appointee of former President Donald Trump.
“The United States Constitution — a law that is supreme even to the Tennessee General Assembly’s acts — has placed some issues beyond the reach of the democratic process,” Parker wrote. “First among them is the freedom of speech.”
