Advertisement“It’s one thing for you to say, ‘I don’t want my child to read this,’” Lindsay Durtschi, a mom and plaintiff in the lawsuit, told me. Citing court precedent, the complaint argues that, while administrators do have some control over what appears in public school libraries, this doesn’t permit official suppression of disfavored ideas. Across the state, right-wing activists are citing various of his laws and directives as the basis for getting books removed from school libraries. By attacking ideologically driven bans themselves as unconstitutional, the lawsuit could create a weapon for parents to use against book removals throughout Florida and beyond. A victory in this lawsuit, Durtschi says, would make it clearer that the book-banners are really out to marginalize people and ideas.

Source: Washington Post May 17, 2023 23:31 UTC