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From: Auric Hellman <adhellman1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Iowa law banning books
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 23:13:35 -0400
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On 3/26/2025 8:01 PM, JAB wrote:
> Iowa law banning books including 1984 and Ulysses blocked by US
> federal judge
> 
> Judge rules that law banning school libraries and classrooms from
> carrying books depicting sex acts had been applied unconstitutionally
> 
> A lawsuit brought by publishers and authors including John Green and
> Jodi Picoult has led to a portion of a law banning Iowa school
> libraries and classrooms from carrying books depicting sex acts being
> halted.
> 
> On Tuesday, a federal judge temporarily blocked the measure, writing
> that it had been applied unconstitutionally in many schools and that
> books of "undeniable political, artistic, literary, and/or scientific
> value" had been caught up in it, including Ulysses by James Joyce,
> Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Beloved by Toni Morrison and
> The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.
> 
> This is the second time that US district judge Stephen Locher, a Joe
> Biden appointee, has blocked the ban. The law, Senate File 496, was
> first approved by Iowa's Republican-led legislature and governor Kim
> Reynolds in 2023, however, Locher placed an injunction on it in
> December 2023 after authors and publishers sued the state.
> 
> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/26/iowa-law-banning-books-including-1984-and-ulysses-blocked-by-us-federal-judge
> 



The banning of books is something every person of every political 
persuasion should come together to protest. It is the very essence of 
what makes a society truly free




-- 
Dr. Auric D. Hellman
adhellman1@gmail.com