Oct. 22 (UPI) -- A federal judge has ordered the Department of Defense to return nearly 600 books on race and gender to libraries at several U.S. military schools, ruling that President Donald Trump's executive orders that led to their removal likely violate the First Amendment.
U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles on Monday ordered the books to be restored to the libraries of five schools on U.S. military installation in Virginia, Kentucky, Italy and Japan, while barring the Trump administration from further altering their curriculum.
"This ruling is a solid first step in a long road to restoring and protecting students' freedom to read in schools run for military families, and we hope this decision will serve as useful precedent in other courts," PEN America's Freedom to Read Program Director Kasey Meehan said in a statement Tuesday.
Since returning to the White House in January, Trump has led a charge to remove left-leaning ideology from government, public and private spaces via his executive powers.
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