Indiana man's library ban over anti-Trump poem unconstitutional
The library staff was "confused and scared" by the poem, and that concern was increased due to the climate around the 2020 election.
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The library staff was "confused and scared" by the poem, and that concern was increased due to the climate around the 2020 election.
February 1, 2021, 1:02pm In news that makes you say “Why?”: last week, the ACLU of Indiana filed a lawsuit against the Jackson County Public Library, on behalf of a man who was banned for life from the library over an original Trump-critical poem he left at the library. The suit claims that Jackson County Public Library has violated the man’s First Amendment rights, as well as the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Richard England, 68, has attended the Seymour branch of the Jackson County Public Library twice a week for over a decade, befriending several library employees. ...