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Far-right Wyoming legislators tried during the past three sessions to pass laws to lock up librarians for allegedly making “obscene” books available to children. After that batch of outrageous bills failed, this interim session was devoted to trying to bankrupt school and public libraries that offend them.

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A draft bill that fined libraries a whopping $50,000 every time an employee made “sexually explicit” material available to a minor was lowered to $500 Monday by the Joint Judiciary Committee.

But while panel members who approved the heavily amended and confusing bill by an 11-2 vote congratulated themselves for a job well done, one of

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