MAGA Fascists Try To Ban Drag and Fail. Repeatedly.

Episode 1011

Here's one for everyone who enjoys stories about terrible people losing in court! Casey stops by to review Alito's complaint to America's managers about the devastating cost of marriage equality: the exclusion of anti-LGBTQ bigots from juries. Matt breaks down the total failure of state attempts to ban drag shows and why the actual First Amendment keeps winning over the one that the kinds of people who yell the most about the First Amendment seem to think that they are yelling about.

1. Thomas/Alito statement in 2020 denial of Kim Davis's cert petition (2020)

2. Alito's concurrence in denial of cert in Missouri Dept of Corrections v. Finney (2024)

3. Trial court decision in Friends of Georges v. Mulroy (TN drag show ban)

4. Trial court decision in Florida-ORL v. Griffin (FL drag show ban)

5. Trial court decision in Woodlands Pride v. Paxton (TX drag show ban)

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