Two Federal Trial Judges in Texas Express Diametrically Opposed Views on First Amendment Protection for Drag Shows

U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee who is the only judge assigned to the Amarillo Division of the Northern District of Texas and is among the most anti-LGBTQ judges in the nation, issued a ruling on September 21 denying a preliminary injunction to a student organization that was prohibited by Walter Wendler, the President of West Texas A&M University (WT), from holding a planned drag show on the WT campus intended to … <Read More>


Texas Appeals Court Denies Constitutional Challenge to “Online Impersonation” Statute in Manhunt.net Case

Who knew? It is potentially a crime in Texas, and apparently several other states, to pose as somebody else on social media sites like Manhunt.net, and this does not violate anybody’s 1st Amendment rights, held a panel of the Texas 5th District Court of Appeals in Ex parte Bradshaw, 2016 Tex. App. LEXIS 9203, 2016 WL 4443714 (Aug. 23, 2016).

According to the opinion by Justice Robert M. Fillmore, Michael Dwain Bradshaw has been … <Read More>