Our hearts are broken over this dreadful news. I know the people of my district and Maryland join me in sending Rep. Peltola our love, sympathy and strength. May Buzzy’s memory always be a blessing to Mary’s wonderful family.
BREAKING: A Federal Judge has just blocked an Arkansas law that allowed for librarians to be charged criminally for books that kids read within the libraries they work.
Details:
- U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks has issued a preliminary injunction against the law, which was signed by Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and was set to take effect on Tuesday.
- The lawsuit names the state’s 28 local prosecutors as defendants, along with Crawford County in west Arkansas.
- These are the plaintiffs challenging the law:
Central Arkansas Library System in Little Rock, the Fayetteville and Eureka Springs Carnegie public libraries, the American Booksellers Association and the Association of American Publishers.
I understand the need to protect children from seeing certain material, but to criminally charge librarians for not doing the job that parents should be doing is pathetic in my opinion.
Thoughts?
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
― The Great Gatsby (1925)
@cnnbrk Why the hell do you keep cutting away from the news conference every time someone gives comments in Spanish? You cut away and fill the time with inane blather until English is spoken. You realize some people would benefit from hearing the Spanish comments? Unbelievable!
BREAKING
Florida Department of Health OIG finds reasonable cause to suspect employees under Gov. Ron DeSantis created a "substantial and specific danger to the public's health" by misrepresenting and falsifying #COVID19 surveillance data, giving @GeoRebekah whistleblower status.