Florida Dems Try to Use Ron DeSantis’ Book Ban on His Own Book

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Months since it took effect, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ signature law to censor books in Florida schools has found an unintended target: his own book.

In a clever bit of trolling, Florida Democrats are subjecting DeSantis' new tome—“The Courage To Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival”—to the rules that he and GOP lawmakers established to weed out books with allegedly inappropriate content on race, sexuality, and gender from school libraries.

Fentrice Driskell, the Minority Leader in the Florida House, is leading an effort across 50 counties to see if any of them might review or ban DeSantis’ book based on his law's vague and unwieldy criteria.

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