The Florida law that limits drag shows in the state will remain blocked, the Supreme Court said Thursday, dealing a blow to a key initiative championed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Florida had asked the high court to narrow a lower court’s injunction that stopped the law from being enforced statewide. The justices declined to do so.

Conservative Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch said they would have allowed the law to take effect.

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    8 months ago

    What a waste of taxpayer dollars by so-called “conservatives”.

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      8 months ago

      Conservative governments enacting laws that they know will fail court challenges, but that pander to their SoCon base has been happening increasingly over the last couple of decades.

      And not only in the US.

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      8 months ago

      It’s not a waste to them. They got what they wanted.