The lawsuit argues the law is unconstitutionally vague, a violation of free speech rights and an undue burden on booksellers. It seeks to block the law before it takes effect.
When he signed the Texas bill into law, Abbott praised the measure as one that "gets that trash out of our schools."and Blue Willow Bookshop in Houston, the American Booksellers Association, the Association of American Publishers, the Authors Guild, and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
Those groups say the law places too heavy a burden on book sellers to rate thousands upon thousands of titles sold in the past and new ones published every year. "Booksellers should not be put in the position of broadly determining what best serves all Texan communities," said Charley Rejsek, chief executive officer of BookPeople. "Each community is individual and has different needs. Setting local guidelines is not the government’s job either. It is the local librarian’s and teacher’s job.Gov. Greg Abbott signed some controversial education bills into law, including one to ban certain books in school libraries.
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