Has Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a lot of far-right measures into law? Without a doubt, yes. Have those measures withstood scrutiny in the courts? As stevebenen writes, the answer is clearly no.
, so it didn’t come as much of a surprise last month when the Florida Republican signed a measure empowering the state to penalize businesses that allow minors to attend drag performances., the new state law is facing judicial scrutiny — and it’s not faring well.
A federal judge in Florida temporarily blocked a new law allowing the state to penalize businesses that admit children to “adult live performances” such as drag shows. Judge Gregory A. Presnell of the Federal District Court in Orlando issued a preliminary injunction blocking the new law, which went into effect last month.
“Florida already has statutes that provide such protection [from obscene performances]. Rather, this statute is specifically designed to suppress the speech of drag queen performers,” Presnell wrote. The setback in court comes months after DeSantis’ administration sent undercover police officers to look for evidence of improprieties at a Christmas drag show in Orlando. When the officers said they didn’t see anything that ran afoul of the state’s decency laws, DeSantis’ administrationFriday’s ruling was an injunction that blocks Florida from enforcing the drag restrictions, but the underlying case challenging the legality of the new state statute is still ongoing.
The Republican governor/presidential candidate denounced the injunction as “dead wrong” and vowed to appeal, but stepping back, it’s hard not to notice that DeSantis has struggled quite a bit in the courts lately. NBC NewsOn Wednesday, another judge struck down a Florida rule and a statute that banned state Medicaid payments for transgender healthcare.
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