Florida judge strikes down state law used to ban books: 'None of these books are obscene'
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What's the catch?
It can probably be appealed, and our Supreme Court is hot garbage
It’s not our Supreme Court. It’s theirs.
No, it is ours. It's a federal court.
The point is that the supreme court doesn't work for the people. "Theirs" as in, who benefits from generations of racist voters and workers without critical thinking. And while Judge Carlos Mendoza, working as a federal District Judge made that ruling, it can certainly be appealed and end up at the level of the supreme court, being overturned, and setting a precedent that book bans are legal nationwide
Okay, I took that comment to mean "It's not our supreme court it would be appealed to, but rather Florida's supreme court.
This is straight out of the GOP playbook.
Pass a law that you know will incite the Left. Ban abortion, ban gays, ban books; any civil rights violation will do.
Now the Left is forced to choose between fighting the laws in court, or contributing to political races.
Because the GOP runs the State, they can use taxpayer money to pay for the fight.
Hopefully nothing but this has been going on since 2022 with one particular asshole abusing the hell out of it, so my guess is this is just a story of "Florida takes 3 years to realize new law is against the old laws"
heres cheif book asshole himself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwlhhb5jgqs
I’m very grateful that my district where I teach has very specific library guidelines. Books cannot be challenged based on gender or sexual identity only. Books cannot be removed based on a single passage or paragraph, it must be removed or retained on the content of the entire book. Challenges may only come from parents, employees, or those that reside in the community and they must read the material in its entirety, and then they are excluded from the committee that makes the final decision to retain or remove the book. Once challenged the book cannot be challenged again for 5 years, and only one challenge can happen at a time. Of course, I feel my district would bend very quickly at any state or federal pressure, but at least for now the libraries are left to those who have degrees in library science and hold teaching licenses.
What utopia is this?
None of these books is obscene.