What Do Supreme Court Precedents Tell Us About Removal of Books from School Library?
Eugene Volokh writes on the Volokh Conspiracy: I often hear arguments that the Supreme Court has held that school boards are limited by the Free Speech Clause in their ability to remove books. A commenter on the first thread in this chain offers an example: The distinction is that the school library already had the copy and then removed it. While many will debate whether that distinction makes a difference, it does under Supreme Court jurisprudence. In fact, the U.S. Courts Web site says the same. But this turns out not to be an accurate statement of what the Supreme Court has actually held. This issue was indeed before the court in Board of Ed. v. Pico . . .
