VAN BUREN — Plaintiffs who won a First Amendment lawsuit over the display of LGBTQ-themed books in Crawford County’s public libraries are raising money to support some of the defendants, according to newly filed court documents.
They are doing so, court filings state, to ensure that money from the defense to pay for the plaintiffs’ own legal fees does not come from the Crawford County Library System.
“We won our lawsuit against book banning, and now they’re trying to defund the library,” plaintiff Rebecka Virden states on a GoFundMe page.
The ongoing back-and-forth between the two sides in Crawford County’s library books controversy broke into a wider public and legal chasm this week that a federal judge will have to navigate.
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