A onetime Republican congressional candidate saw two legal claims revived in his fight to call himself a doctor on the campaign trail, with a ruling by the Texas Supreme Court on Friday.
Rey Gonzalez Jr. gets to argue to a trial court that because he’s not a licensed physician the Texas Medical Board had no right to restrict his political speech during the 2020 election cycle, the justices said.
“If the Texas Medical Board thinks it has the power to police campaign speech, it will have to defend that position on the merits,” Justice James Sullivan wrote for the unanimous ...