In 1928, the City of Chicago banned a book, known as 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,' from all of its public libraries.
We want our schools and libraries to be open and welcoming settings for education, not cultural battlefields.
We need to work together as a country to try to create clear standards for access to books.
In the 1850s, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' the classic antislavery novel, was banned throughout the Southern United States.
Two decades later, in 1873, Congress passed the Comstock Act, a law that mandated up to 5 years in prison for any person...
This meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee will come to order.
But for 30 years, Congress has failed to pass immigration reform, and as a consequence, many of the things that are happ...
I could not be more proud of this legislation, and I implore everyone in this room to please, please be on the right sid...
Unfortunately, there is a long history in our country of banning books we now consider classic works of literature.
People would say right away, 'I want a new judge. I want a change of venue. I want to get somebody who's at least object...
Let's not obfuscate 'equal treatment' and 'equal opportunity' with 'special treatment,' as some would suggest.
Adam's right, this is what our politics has become. And I do think that there are a lot of Americans who are hungry for ...
There's a 1 percent to 2 percent chance it's logistics. There's a 98 percent to 99 percent chance it's the optics. Look,...
It is absolutely outrageous that at a moment -- I couldn't imagine being governor of any state, having a tragedy like th...
this isn't the plot that he -- but he is running in Trump's tracks here, and Trump has laid these tracks and he's been v...
Why is he gaining so much? Because nobody that is running for president with the exception of Chris Christie, Asa Hutchi...
