GET ME REWRITE: GOP gears up to fight crime and inflation with more book banning and censorship

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Headline: Up North News, 6/21/2022

As reported by the Associated Press, Evers said “that if he loses reelection in November, Republicans will take the ‘breathtaking’ step to ban books, particularly those related to the LGBTQ community.” 

Here’s why he’s almost certainly right: 

Republicans are already pushing book bans across the country. Per CNN, “Republican-controlled states including Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas are now pushing statewide rules that make it easier for critics to remove books they dislike from school libraries in every community.” Jeffrey Sachs, a professor who tracks free speech in education recently told Vox that, “every single Republican-controlled state where the legislature is currently in session is considering a new “educational gag order” bill.”  [emphasis added]

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