For a Party that wants to allow 13-year-olds to work in meat processing plants, Republicans in Florida are trying their damnest to put a 19-year-old woman on government assistance by refusing to allow her to simply do her job and make a living, so she’s suing Florida’s attorney general and two local prosecutors who went after her employer.
According to ABC News, the owner of Cafe Risque in Gainesville has joined the lawsuit filed by its former employee, Serenity Michelle Bushey, who claims the new state law unfairly restricts her First Amendment freedom of speech and the Fourteenth Amendment equal protection rights after the cafe was forced to fire her for being under 21-years-old.
Florida’s new law prevents anyone under the age of 21 from being in a strip club, but like eight of her other former co-workers, Bushey is between 18 and 21. “As with similar performers around the state, Bushey earned her living through her art while providing entertainment for the benefit and enjoyment of her audience,” the lawsuit said. “Plaintiffs have a clear legal right to engage in protected speech of this nature.”