A Texas lawyer who went to medical school can proceed with his lawsuit challenging the state medical board’s order for him to stop calling himself as a doctor on the campaign trail, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday.

The high court ruled the Third Court of Appeals should not have dismissed Reynaldo “Rey” Gonzalez’s claims that the Texas Medical Board overstepped its authority by issuing a cease-and-desist when he called himself “Dr. Gonzalez” while running for Congress in 2020. Justices also said Gonzalez can move forward with his claim that the law the cease-and-desist was based on was unconstitutionally applied to him.

“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 f

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