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The READER Act would have required vendors to rate books on "explicitness" before selling to schools—and blacklisted those that didn't comply.

Here’s a look at bills under consideration this session that are on the radar of free-speech advocates.

Last week, state Sen. Clint Dixon, R-Buford, filed Senate Bill 394, which is also known as the Restricting Explicit and Adult-designated Educational Resources Act, or the READER Act for short.

Atticus Finch, the relentlessly principled defense attorney and father in Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” has just wrapped up his closing statement when his family’s cook and housekeeper interrupts the court, to pass him a note. For a moment, Finch loses his composure. It turns out his children haven’t been seen at home for hours and, to his chagrin, he realizes they’ve

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In a major victory in the fight against book banning, U.S. judges uphold the injunction of a Texas book-banning law.

Appeals court upholds ruling against book bans. Even the 5th Circuit couldn't find a way to do it.

Last year, the GOP-controlled Texas Legislature passed the Restricting Explicit and Adult-Designated Educational Resources Act.

Texas HB 900 would've required vendors to assign ratings to books based on depictions or references to sex.