Texas tried to crack down on drag performances in the name of “protecting children.” The courts had other ideas.
In this video, we’re talking about Texas Senate Bill 12, the state’s repeatedly challenged attempt to restrict drag and other performances officials considered “sexual,” and the latest legal defeat for a law critics have argued was an unconstitutional attack on free expression and the LGBTQ+ community.
And yes, I am enjoying this one.
Because there is something deeply funny about politicians who spend years shouting about the Constitution suddenly discovering that the First Amendment also applies to people they don’t like.
We’ll break down what happened, why the law keeps running into constitutional problems, why the “protect the children” argument deserves a much closer look, and how Texas lawmakers managed to turn their obsession with drag queens into yet another expensive culture-war courtroom loss.
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