Parts of a Texas law that would have required booksellers
to rate sexual content in books sold to schools will
not go into effect.
A federal appeals court this week declined to reconsider an
earlier ruling that sided with booksellers who said the law
violates the First Amendment.
Ellie Brinkley is a legal fellow with Penn America.
She called House Bill 900 disastrous.
These laws are sort of patently absurd and on their
face are antithetical to First Amendment values.