Judge Temporarily Halts Tennessee's Anti-Drag Law.
A federal judge in Tennessee has temporarily halted the state's new law restricting public drag performances just hours before the legislation was set to take effect. The ruling marked a temporary victory for Friends of George, a theater company that puts on drag shows and claimed that the newly-passed legislation infringed on its First Amendment rights. The judge partially cited the law's "redundancy" in halting implementation of the legislation, which would make "a person who engages in an adult cabaret performance on public property" a criminal offense.