Llano County commissioners in the Texas Hill Country are weighing whether they will shut down their library system instead of complying with a federal judge’s order that they must return 17 banned books to the library shelves. | via TPRNews
by Kristin Elizabeth ClarkFederal Judge Robert Pitman ordered the 17 books to be returned to the shelves on March 30 because officials had targeted them for the ideas they contain. Supreme Court precedent bars book removal based on viewpoint discrimination.
Shirley Robinson, the executive director of the Texas Library Association, said this should be a wake-up call for the 21,000 residents of Llano. She added that it should also be a wake-up call to people across the country, as this is part of a right-wing trend nationwide challenging and banning books, and harassing librarians
Book bans and attempts to defund public libraries are taking place across the United States. Republican lawmakers in Missouri just passed a budget that doesn’t include funding for the state’s public libraries. Republican State Rep. Dirk Deaton said that these attempts are not book bans — rather they are “protecting innocent children.”
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