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Brooks previously blocked the challenged sections on a temporary basis in July 2023, days before the law went into effect. He wrote in his 49-page ruling at the time that the challenged text was too vague and could lead to arbitrary interpretation and “content-based restrictions.” <--government censorship
“This ruling by Judge Brooks affirms the values that CALS librarians and, I believe, most of our citizens hold dear — namely that our Constitution does not deputize city boards or quorum courts, or librarians like me for that matter — to be the agents of government censorship by allowing any of us to remove or restrict access to books when some people in our community find the content or ideas in those books objectionable,” [plaintiff Nate] Coulter said in a statement.
The two Crawford County defendants, along with the county quorum court and library director, lost a separate First Amendment lawsuit in September. U.S. District Judge P.K. Holmes ruled in favor of three parents who claimed the Crawford County Library’s segregation of LGBTQ+ children’s books into separate “social sections” violated the First Amendment.
Brooks previously blocked the challenged sections on a temporary basis in July 2023, days before the law went into effect. He wrote in his 49-page ruling at the time that the challenged text was too vague and could lead to arbitrary interpretation and “content-based restrictions.” <--government censorship
“This ruling by Judge Brooks affirms the values that CALS librarians and, I believe, most of our citizens hold dear — namely that our Constitution does not deputize city boards or quorum courts, or librarians like me for that matter — to be the agents of government censorship by allowing any of us to remove or restrict access to books when some people in our community find the content or ideas in those books objectionable,” [plaintiff Nate] Coulter said in a statement.
The two Crawford County defendants, along with the county quorum court and library director, lost a separate First Amendment lawsuit in September. U.S. District Judge P.K. Holmes ruled in favor of three parents who claimed the Crawford County Library’s segregation of LGBTQ+ children’s books into separate “social sections” violated the First Amendment.
