Posted on 05/09/2025 8:28:01 AM PDT by V_TWIN
President Donald Trump fired Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, on Thursday.
Hayden was informed of the president’s decision through an email from Trent Morse, the deputy director of presidential personnel.
“On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as the Librarian of Congress is terminated effective immediately,” the email said.
Hayden was appointed by former President Barack Obama in 2016 to serve a 10-year term, which was set to expire next year.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
...Members of Congress should also be concerned over her involvement in a 2003 Supreme Court case: U.S. v. American Library Association.
In 2000, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), which required public libraries that receive federal funding to use Internet filters that will prevent minors from being able to access obscene materials, including child pornography. The Act specifically allows a library to “disable” the filter “to enable access for bona fide research or other lawful purposes” or “during use by an adult.”
Carla Hayden was the president of the American Library Association from 2003 to 2004. According to an interview she gave to “The History Makers,” she “spearheaded the ALA’s efforts to overturn” this legislation.
Fortunately, the Supreme Court rejected the challenge filed by the American Library Association, concluding that it did not violate the First Amendment right of the libraries or their patrons.
As Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote:
[CIPA was] intended to help public libraries fulfill their traditional role of obtaining material of requisite and appropriate quality for education and information purposes …
[Congress could] certainly insist that these public funds be spent for the purposes for which they were authorized....
QED !
jerry seinfeld had a difficult time keeping a straight face during those scenes where “the library cop” was lecturing him for his heinous crime of a long overdue book ...
“I don’t know why but most librarians are on the far left.”
indeed ... the librarians in our little local library have a display of books titled “recommended by our librarians” and t the books are all leftist trash ...
That was a crime against sanity. Just for that she should have been fired.
The left will stop at nothing in order to defile anything they think is sacred to our country.
Burn the flag, let an overweight “entertainer” slobber on a national treasure, deface national monuments and on and on.....they are dispicable.
Why?
I’m sure that when he fired the Librarian he did it by the book.
A pity, really - the Dems were having such a great time at Drag Queen Story Hour...
“Jerry Seinfeld even had a hard time keeping a straight face.”
There were a couple times when he didn’t really.
Every time we see the “Bookman” guy in a serious role, it’s hard to take him seriously.
Mr. Wordsworth, the State finds you OBSOLETE
“Kind of funny that the Library of Congress is under the Executive Branch.”
It isn’t. As a matter of fact they are hiring now while almost no Executive Branch departments cannot do so.
The Young Adult section is mostly LGBQT novels and propaganda, anime, and vampire/werewolf/ghost/witchcraft how-tos, and paranormal items.
Those who can do and vote accordingly
Those who won’t do vote so they can tell the doers what to do.
That's what some call it.
For Trump, and, if they paid me enough money, I would come out of retirement to be the Nations Librarian.
But, it would have to be a butt-load of money.
It always puzzled me. I am far from Liberal and was a Librarian for 30+ years. Real Library Science is FAR from liberal.
At one point, in a library I was running, I had a small display by a plant. It was just older murder mysteries that I liked. I had to restock it daily. VERY popular display.
Never understood the pushing of junk when so many great books are out there that need reading.
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