Missouri students and Texas patrons are suing their libraries to restore acclaimed titles now removed, while a former Republican Congressional candidate in Virginia Beach, Va., seeks to have two books put on trial for obscenity to minors.
Forty years after the US Supreme Court ruled that school boards can’t take books off library shelves simply because they disagree with ideas or viewpoints, book challenges have erupted anew as a political and cultural flashpoint.
‘Island Trees’ is the only school library case to have been decided by the Supreme Court. Its lead plaintiff, Steven Pico, cautions that as the high court ...
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