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When the crowd in the district court room dispersed for a lunch break, Bonnie Wallace remained behind with a book. Wallace, the vice chairman of the Llano County Library advisory board, had come to U.S. district judge Robert Pitman’s courtroom that day as a defendant in a First Amendment lawsuit. Over the past year she has emerged as one of the loudest voices in Llano, a sleepy Hill Country town of 3,500 about ninety minutes from Austin, calling for the removal of what she deemed “pornography” from the shelves of the county library. A few months after library officials acquiesced to her emailed demands to remove a series of children’s health picture books and other titles relating to LGBTQ and racial issues, county commissioners appointed…
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