On December 8, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Little v. Llano County, a Texas case that could have decided the constitutionality of book bans in public libraries. Thus, the justices left in place a lower court ruling allowing state and local governments to make decisions on book bans. The case, turned on whether book removal decisions, which have swept across public schools and libraries in the past few years, are subject to the First Amendment’s free speech protections. It would have been the first case on book bans to be heard in the U.S. Supreme Court since 1982.
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