A federal judge has closed the chapter on key parts of Florida’s censorious ban on school library books that conservatives deem “pornographic” and harmful to children.

A federal judge has struck a blow against Florida’s book bans, ruling against part of a DeSantis-backed law to suppress classics and modern novels.

The law is vague and broad and included no room for considering the literary merit of the work, and so the result was a wave of book bans across the state. One district banned the Maurice Sendak classic “In The Night Kitchen” because one illustration includes a boys bare butt.