Trump Appointed judge rules against new Texas law forcing booksellers to rate and label books for sexy content, as well as issue recalls.
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Qale
Sep 23 '23, 20:25
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Book defenders now have a court ruling in their corner from an unlikely ally: Trump-appointed federal Judge Alan D. Albright. The Waco-based jurist didn’t hesitate to strike down Texas’ new law that would have forced booksellers to rate and label books for their sexual content and recall any titles they’d previously sold that could be considered sexually explicit. Albright determined that the law, passed earlier this year, constituted “textbook compelled speech” and found its mandates “so numerous and onerous as to call into question whether the legislature believed any third party could possibly comply.” Normally in such cases, an appeal is expected. But these days, one can’t be sure if the Texas Attorney General’s Office has the wherewithal. As Bloomberg News reported, Albright scolded the state’s attorneys defending the Texas censorship law for showing up to a court hearing “confused and unaware of how the law would actually function in practice, even though the hearing was mere days before it would go into effect.”
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