A Colorado school district can’t remove 19 books from school libraries because it disagrees with their content, a federal court said, granting a preliminary injunction against the ban.
Parents, students, book authors, and the NAACP are likely to win on their claim that the removals deny students their First Amendment right to access the books, Judge Charlotte N. Sweeney said Wednesday for the US District Court for the District of Colorado. They showed that the Elizabeth School District “removed the 19 books based on the authors’ and books’ content and viewpoints on issues such as race, sexual orientation, gender identity, ...