Montana judge keeps in place a ban on enforcement of law restricting drag shows, drag reading events

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/14/montana-drag-shows-bans-00121577

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12 Comments

Studious_Gluteus@kbin.social · 55 pts · 2y (3 replies)

The shows will go on.

  • paraphrased from that judge, for those who may have trouble parsing that headline.
emolr@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Thanks, I was wondering if I somehow forgot to read

books@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Thank God I wasn't alone.

Fucking word soup up there.

NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y

Nope, definitely not alone.

blazeknave@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Montana judge continues blocking anti-drag-laws

RGB3x3@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y

Yeah, holy shit, that headline is hard to parse with the "maintenance of restrictions on enforcement of bans."

Tammo-Korsai@kbin.social · 12 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I'm sure many Republicans are rejoicing since a fair few of them love drag shows.

jerome@kbin.social · 6 pts · 2y

Ha! Your comment is like the headline!

ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y

RuPublicans.

Hey there's no shame in being fabulous. They should get to live their best lives too. Queens 👑👠

FiskFisk33@startrek.website · 9 pts · 2y (2 replies)

american law confuses me.
It is a good thing the shitty law doesn't get enforced, but it's so strange to me how a judge can just ban enforcement of a law. Is it. Even a law then

perviouslyiner@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 2y

Laws can't conflict with the US Constitution, so if a law says that people with certain clothes aren't allowed to speak, then the judge can say that's not a real law.

PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 2y

It's the freedom of speech thing people seem to hate. Drag is a form of art and expression so there's a massive hurdle in trying to ban it. If they can't make it over the hurdle of the first amendment it is unenforceable as a law.

There are still sodomy laws on the books in some states that are entirely useless.

Phegan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
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