Thomas Parker says law designed to place limit on drag shows would encourage ‘discriminatory enforcement’ in ruling
Thomas Parker says law designed to place limits on drag shows would encourage ‘discriminatory enforcement’ in rulingA federal judge appointed by Donald Trump said a first-in-the-nationIn a 70-page ruling handed down late on Friday, the US district judge, Thomas Parker, called the law “unconstitutionally vague and substantially over-broad”, and said it would encourage “discriminatory enforcement”.
Initially, the complaint listed the Republican governor, Bill Lee, the attorney general Jonathan Skrmetti and the Shelby county district attorney general Steven Mulroy as defendants. The plaintiffs later agreed to dismiss the governor and top legal chief, though Skrmetti continued to represent Mulroy.
Lee signed the statute and it was set to take effect on 1 April. But the law has never been enforced because Parker sided with the group that filed the lawsuit challenging the statute in March and temporarily blocked the law. According to the complaint, the Republican state representative Chris Todd and the Republican state senator Ed Jackson helped lead an effort last year to block a drag show at a park in Jackson, west of Nashville, as part of a Pride festival.
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