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Samuel Alito saw a picture book he didn’t like

Several children's books shelf

Among a torrent of Supreme Court decisions today came one involving a picture book. Well, that’s a little reductive, but also not really. The case, Mahmoud v. Taylor, centered on if a school had to give parents an opportunity to protect their children from such dangerous things as picture books involving LGBT+ themes on the off chance it inhibited the parents’ rights to practice their religion. Without getting too far into the weeds with regards to the facts of the case, the case involved several families in Montgomery County, Maryland, who argued that the local schools adding...

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