Judge orders books removed from Texas public libraries due to LGBTQ and racial content must be returned within 24 hours

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A federal judge in Texas ruled that at least 12 books removed from public libraries by Llano County officials, many because of their LGBTQ and racial content, must be placed back onto shelves within 24 hours, according to an order filed Thursday.

 

Seven residents sued county officials in April 2022, claiming their First and 14th Amendment rights were violated when books deemed inappropriate by some people in the community and Republican lawmakers were removed from public libraries or access was restricted.

 

The lawsuit filed in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas in San Antonio claimed county officials removed books from the shelves of the three-branch public library system “because they disagree with the ideas within them” and terminated access to thousands of digital books because they could not ban two specific titles.

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/01/us/texas-book-ban-removed-library-replaced-judge/index.html

 

[Tug]

Well its a step in the right direction now if the Texans could do something about the school shootings and train their cops properly to protect the children that would be even better yet