Citing risk to Elie Wiesel’s ‘Night,’ Iowa judge blocks key parts of state book ban law

JL;DR SUMMARY A federal judge in Iowa has blocked key parts of a state law that prohibits school libraries from stocking books depicting sex acts, citing that it would prevent books about the Holocaust, such as Elie Wiesel's Night, from being accessible. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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