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Federal District Judge Allows Sexually Explicit Shows For Children
Texas Scorecard ^ | 8/26/2026 | Travis Morgan

Posted on 08/28/2026 1:32:28 PM PDT by JeepersFreepers

A federal judge in Houston has blocked Texas’ law prohibiting explicit sexual performances in front of children, finding it unconstitutional. Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is now blocked from enforcing the law, is appealing the district court decision to the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

The law known as Senate Bill 12—dubbed a “drag show ban” by its detractors—regulates sexually oriented performances on public property and in the presence of minors.

Section One of SB 12 prohibits a “person who controls the premises of a commercial enterprise” from “allow[ing] a sexually oriented performance to be presented on the premises in the presence of an individual younger than 18 years of age.”

On Tuesday, Judge Hittner released his decision—again declaring SB 12 an unconstitutional restriction on free speech, this time permanently blocking the OAG from enforcing it.

“The Court concludes that Texas Senate Bill 12 violates the First Amendment as incorporated to the State of Texas by the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution,” wrote Hittner. “The Court further ORDERS that the Attorney General of Texas is immediately and permanently enjoined from enforcing Texas Senate Bill 12.”

(Excerpt) Read more at texasscorecard.com ...


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Surprisingly, this judge was appointed by Reagan in 1986. He is 87 years old. Senility must be setting in for him to rule that this perversion cannot be prohibited by Texas law.
1 posted on 08/28/2026 1:32:28 PM PDT by JeepersFreepers
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Arrest the old bastard. Why is an 87 year old still a judge?


2 posted on 08/28/2026 1:36:36 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (There is no gravity. The earth just sucks. )
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To: JeepersFreepers

Hey Sodom, meet Gomorrah


3 posted on 08/28/2026 1:41:27 PM PDT by drypowder
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I hope Reagan is putting a hex on this guy.


4 posted on 08/28/2026 1:48:39 PM PDT by ryderann
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To: JeepersFreepers

At 87, perverts have had many years to cultivate their perversion.


5 posted on 08/28/2026 2:39:02 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification;)
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To: HYPOCRACY

He’s a dem pervert from Biden era.


6 posted on 08/28/2026 3:32:01 PM PDT by chopperk
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To: HYPOCRACY

He’s a dem pervert from Biden era.


7 posted on 08/28/2026 3:32:03 PM PDT by chopperk
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To: HYPOCRACY

He’s a dem pervert from Biden era.


8 posted on 08/28/2026 3:32:03 PM PDT by chopperk
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To: HYPOCRACY

He’s a dem pervert from Biden era.


9 posted on 08/28/2026 3:32:04 PM PDT by chopperk
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To: HYPOCRACY

He’s a dem pervert from Biden era.


10 posted on 08/28/2026 3:32:05 PM PDT by chopperk
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To: HYPOCRACY

He’s a dem pervert from Biden era.


11 posted on 08/28/2026 3:32:07 PM PDT by chopperk
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repeated judicial treason


12 posted on 08/28/2026 3:41:45 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: HYPOCRACY

Well, by more than one standard this guy has no business as judge. Get rid rid of him would be my suggestion, and yesterday was not too soon.


13 posted on 08/28/2026 4:24:09 PM PDT by oldtech (oltech)
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To: JeepersFreepers

I remember when a Supreme Court Justice famously said he couldn’t describe pornography but he knew it when he saw it.


14 posted on 08/28/2026 5:08:41 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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Is he a dem pervert from Biden era? I was wondering.


15 posted on 08/28/2026 5:44:28 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (There is no gravity. The earth just sucks. )
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Judge Hitler. One of Soros’s boys.


16 posted on 08/28/2026 6:14:58 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Socialism is the same clown show that gave us out of control global illegal immigration.)
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Good God, with all the controls the gov’t can shove down our neck, but we can’t protect kids?


17 posted on 08/28/2026 8:47:05 PM PDT by Paul R. (Who else but Dolly Parton could go so far by being so genuine about being so fake?)
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If you had read my post (#1), you would have seen this:

Surprisingly, this judge was appointed by Reagan in 1986. He is 87 years old. Senility must be setting in for him to rule that this perversion cannot be prohibited by Texas law.

18 posted on 08/28/2026 9:43:14 PM PDT by JeepersFreepers (The heart of the wise inclines to the right but the heart of the fool to the left. (Eccl 10:2 NIV))
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I did read it. I was responding to his myriad posts from a glitch or something.


19 posted on 08/29/2026 6:29:31 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (There is no gravity. The earth just sucks. )
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Yet another ad for Home Education.


20 posted on 08/29/2026 9:14:04 AM PDT by Srednik (Polyglot. Overeducated. Redeemed by Christ. Anticommunist from the womb.)
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