{"id":417432,"date":"2026-08-26T17:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/417432\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T17:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:24:07","slug":"judge-channels-dolly-parton-in-blocking-texas-drag-show-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/417432\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge channels Dolly Parton in blocking Texas drag show ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"LSU4W7YE75GWTL7L55DSCRCGGE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">A federal judge has struck down a Texas law restricting drag shows, ruling that it was unconstitutional and telling those offended by the performances: \u201cJust don\u2019t go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"25A3NO6JSBASRERDTH6XYLI4XU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">U.S. District Judge David Hittner said in his ruling on Tuesday that the law, which made it a crime to present a \u201csexually oriented\u201d performance on public property or in the presence of anyone under 18, violates the First Amendment by restricting free speech. The decision prevents Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) from enforcing the law. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal judge has struck down a Texas law restricting drag shows, ruling that it was unconstitutional and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-417432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}