Affirming the district court's preliminary injunction finding that removal of library books because of disagreement with their content violates the First Amendment, 5th Cir. Judge Wiener absolutely TORCHES Kyle Duncan for his dissent.
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The Soup Nazi prevented customers from receiving soup. Defendants prevented plaintiffs from receiving books. The dissent hasn't even made a workable analogy, much less a workable Seinfeld reference.
What's the deal, with that judge?
"what about that kid, sitting down, opening a book, right now, in a branch at the local library and finding drawings of pee-pees and wee-wees on the Cat in the Hat and the Five Chinese Brothers? ... This is about that kid's right to read a book without getting his mind warped!"
Finally, Judge Kyle Duncan quoted @stephenking.bsky.social to close his dissent, and Judge Jacques Wiener was *pissed* on King's behalf. First image is from Duncan and second is Wiener's response, from the majority opinion.
Ahh I missed that other reference, having not read to the conclusion because (a) all of his premises were so stupid that why would I want to read what he thought based on them, and (b) his writing may actually have given me a small stroke.
I fear a bunch of these red counties will respond by shutting the libraries down completely. Like they did public swimming pools. In Red America, they like their swimming pools white and their libraries heterosexual.
"I am referring to the items we have needed to label for clarity as the 'butt and fart books,'" is a line for the ages. I don't see how you can say these books don't have ideas in them just because the humor is juvenile. They are just juvenile ideas such as "farts are funny!"
