October 28, 2025
The full Fifth Circuit has agreed to rehear an LGBTQ+ student organization's challenge to the West Texas A&M University's ban on campus drag shows, after a split panel in August tossed a decision allowing the university to continue its ban.
August 19, 2025
A split Fifth Circuit has reversed a decision that allowed West Texas A&M University to ban drag shows on its campus, writing that art does not need to be like "works of Picasso, Schöenberg, and Carroll" to be protected by the First Amendment.