Tennessee passed a law to protect children from anti-child predators a while back, but sadly, federal judges keep preventing them from enforcing the law. First, it was a federal judge in Memphis. But now, it’s a federal judge in East Tennessee, which is far more conservative than West Tennessee.

Here’s the article from Daily Wire:

A federal judge blocked a Tennessee district attorney from enforcing the state’s law shielding children from sexually explicit performances ahead of a “Pride” event after he was sued by the American Civil Liberties Union.

The judge’s ruling comes after the ACLU filed a lawsuit this week against Blount County DA Ryan Desmond, who sent a letter to Blount County Pride saying that any explicit performances in front of children would not be allowed at a “Pride” event on September 2 just south of Knoxville.

Video has emerged from “Pride” events across the country of explicit drag performances with children present and looking on.

Got that? The goal of the law is to prevent children from seeing explicit performances. Tennessee does not want adults exposing children to sex at young ages. Tennessee opposes grooming children for sex. Tennessee is against pedophilia and child pornography.

More:

“It is certainly possible that the event in question will not violate any of the criminal statutes,” Desmond said. “However if sufficient evidence is presented to this office that these referenced criminal statutes have been violated, our office will ethically and justly prosecute these cases in the interest of justice.”

Desmond had a temporary restraining order placed on him by U.S. District Judge Ronnie Greer meaning that he is blocked from enforcing Tennessee’s Adult Entertainment Act.

The same thing happened before in West Tennessee:

The law has previously been blocked before by a federal judge in Memphis, but could be enforced outside of Shelby County. In late June, U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee blocked the law after Friends of George’s, a self-described “LGBTQ theatre company” based in Memphis, filed a suit challenging the law.

It looks like there is a battle between the attorneys general of red states, who are battling against the ACLU and federal judges. I’m a legal immigrant to the USA, so it’s strange for me that federal judges have power over state laws. It will be interesting to see which states fight these battles. I wonder if Tennessee can just block the ACLU from operating in Tennessee. Or maybe we can just decline to be ruled by federal judges?