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Democrats bid to use censorship law against DeSantis and ban his book

Ron DeSantis with his book The Courage to Be Free at an event in New York at the weekend.
Ron DeSantis with his book The Courage to Be Free at an event in New York at the weekend. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Democrats in Florida are attempting to use a state law that censors books in public schools against the governor who signed it, Ron DeSantis, by asking schools to review or ban the Republican governor’s own book, The Courage to Be Free.

“The very trap he set for others is the one that he set for himself,” Fentrice Driskell, the Democratic minority leader in the Florida statehouse, told the Daily Beast.

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