President Donald Trump has nominated U.S. District Judge Lee Rudofsky of Arkansas, who has issued rulings narrowing the scope of the Voting Rights Act and in favor of a state ban on classroom “indoctrination,” to a federal appeals court post. Trump on Wednesday announced he was nominating Rudofsky, a judge in the Eastern District of […]

Arkansas library directors said they have several unanswered questions about how a 2023 state law restricting access to library materials will be enforced after a federal appeals court ruled that it can go into effect. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the injunction on two sections of Act 372 on July 30 but […]

A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Arkansas’ 2023 law restricting access to library materials can go into effect, three years after a judge blocked two sections of the law on First Amendment grounds. The three-judge panel from the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis ruled that the 18 plaintiffs had no […]