A rural Texas county that was ordered by a U.S. federal judge to return banned books to its public library shelves is now considering shutting down its libraries entirely.
A rural Texas county that was ordered by a federal judge to return banned books to its public library shelves is now considering shutting down its libraries entirely.
Books ordered to return to shelves included "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" by Isabel Wilkerson, "They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti and "Being Jazz: My Life as a Teen" by Jazz Jennings. The defendants argued the books were removed as part of a regular "weeding" process following the library's existing policies.
"It appears that the defendants would rather shut down the Library System entirely — depriving thousands of Llano county residents of access to books, learning resources, and meeting space — than make the banned books available to residents who want to read them," Ellen Leonida, the attorney for plaintiffs in the case, said in a statement to CNN.
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