Article 6AGCB Democrats bid to use censorship law against DeSantis and ban his book

Democrats bid to use censorship law against DeSantis and ban his book

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Martin Pengelly in New York
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Opponents say memoir The Courage to be Free, published in February, violates law governor signed last year

Democrats in Florida are attempting to use a state law that censors books in public schools against the governor who signed it, Ron DeSantis, by asking schools to review or ban the Republican governor's own book, The Courage to be Free.

The very trap he set for others is the one that he set for himself," Fentrice Driskell, the Democratic minority leader in the Florida state house, told the Daily Beast.

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