The Texas Tribune reports:
A federal judge said Thursday he will stop a new Texas law aimed at keeping sexually explicit materials off of school library shelves on the eve of the law going into effect, according to state attorneys and lawyers for a group who sued over the proposal.
District Judge Alan D. Albright indicated during a hearing that he will grant a temporary injunction sought by a group of book groups and sellers, including two Texas bookstores, who sued the state over House Bill 900 in July, the group’s lawyers said in a statement.
HB 900, which was approved during this year’s regular legislative session, requires school library vendors to rate all their books and materials for appropriateness before selling them to schools based on the presence of sex depictions or references. It also requires vendors to rank materials previously sold to schools and issue a recall for those that are deemed sexually explicit and are in active use by a school.
Read the full article. Albright was appointed by Trump in 2019. Yesterday a Reagan appointee blocked Texas’ ban on drag in view of minors. The book ban law is the pet project of Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan [photo above].
New: A federal judge said he will stop a new Texas law aimed at keeping sexually explicit materials off of school library shelves on the eve of the law going into effect, according to state attorneys and lawyers for a group who sued over the proposal.https://t.co/JiACIa0aWr
— Alejandro Serrano (@serrano_alej) August 31, 2023
