The claim that Idaho librarians are dispensing pornography and other harmful materials to kids fell flat last year, but extremist GOP legislators are attacking once again. Idaho’s public and school libraries are overseen by locally elected boards that are charged with applying local community standards. People in some Idaho communities have taken the fabricated claims of the national culture warriors at face value and launched protests against their local libraries. I’m guessing the bill is designed, primarily, to intimidate libraries and librarians. Jim Jones is a Vietnam combat veteran who served 8 years as Idaho Attorney General (1983-1991) and 12 years as a Justice on the Idaho Supreme Court (2005-2017).

Source: New York Times February 28, 2023 01:51 UTC