The Supreme Court’s refusal to hear a challenge to the removal of library books in Llano County, was undoubtedly seen as a stamp of approval by book banners around the country.
In case you’re not up on the library aspect of Texas fascism, a legal fight began in 2022 after seven residents of Llano County, Texas filed a federal lawsuit against Llano county officials “alleging that they had taken several books off the library shelves, paused new book orders and replaced the county library board members with those in favor of book bans,” The Texas Tribune reported.
Several of the titles removed were the same as those included in a list of 850 books that former state Rep. Matt Krause, R-Fort Worth, considered objectionable. Some of the affected books include Jazz Jennings’ “Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen” and Susan Campbell Bartoletti’s “They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group.”
The books were originally ordered reinstated in 2023 by an Obama-appointed district judge, but the very conservative 5th Circuit overturned that decision in May. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the plaintiffs’ appeal of the book ban.
