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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Auric Hellman Newsgroups: misc.news.internet.discuss Subject: Re: Iowa law banning books Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 23:13:35 -0400 Organization: Sons of Rhodesia Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 04:13:35 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2ae922413324a52182d4547b4cd85516"; logging-data="3352578"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+l0uE2aYgjN+2RWl6058Or/ODNL5w4pkM=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:LByv7RH2Dkr7io/zeeXDR+HKkyY= X-Antivirus-Status: Clean In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 250326-16, 3/26/2025), Outbound message Bytes: 2712 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