Florida’s Drag Show Ban for Minors Gets Full Appeals Rehearing

The full Eleventh Circuit on Monday vacated a panel ruling blocking Florida’s ban on minors attending drag shows and ordered a hearing by the full court.

A three-judge circuit panel struck down the law in May, finding that terms like “lascivious conduct” and “exposure” were being used too broadly and regulating too much speech.

That decision, which found the state violated the First Amendment, had two Democratic appointees in the majority and one Republican-appointed judge in the dissent. Republican appointees make up the majority of the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Monday’s one-paragraph order didn’t specify why ...