Judges Back Moms for Liberty on Publicly Chiding Teachers, Books

Two Trump-appointed federal appellate judges appeared sympathetic to Moms for Liberty’s contention that its members were unconstitutionally blocked from criticizing teachers by name or reading obscene passages from books they sought to restrict at one Florida school board’s meetings.

Judges Britt C. Grant and Barbara Lagoa honed in on those two restrictions as potentially unconstitutional limits on free speech as part of a three-judge panel hearing oral argument on Tuesday at the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta. The Brevard County, Fla., affiliate of parent-rights advocacy group Moms for Liberty is asking the Eleventh Circuit to ...