Judge Thomas L. Parker called the first-of-its-kind law, which Republican Gov. Bill Lee signed back in March, a 'viewpoint-based restriction' that is both 'unconstitutionally vague and substantially o

A Trump-appointed federal judge says Tennessee’s first-in-the-nation law designed to place strict limits on drag shows is unconstitutional.

U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker wrote that the law was both “unconstitutionally vague and substantially overbroad” and encouraged “discriminatory enforcement.”

Simply put, no majority of the Supreme Court has held that sexually explicit — but not obscene — speech receives less protection than political, artistic, or scientific speech’

Weeks after Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed the controversial bill into law, a Memphis-based theater group filed suit in federal court.

A Trump-appointed federal judge late Friday declared Tennessee’s new law restricting drag performances unconstitutional and halted its enforcement in Shelby County, where the case originated. Judge Thomas Parker wrote that any restrictions on the First Amendment should be “narrow and well-defined” and that the drag law “is neither.