Judge hears arguments in ACLU suit over Iowa book law

Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch

Posted 12/27/23

A U.S. District Court judge heard oral arguments Friday about whether to stop enforcement of measures in an Iowa education law that ban certain books with sexual content from K-12 school libraries.

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