(Radio Iowa) – A federal judge has blocked the state for the second time from enforcing a law that seeks to keep books with sexual content out of school libraries. Attorney Dan Novack says a broad ban on books with sex acts would deny students information. “If you want to do a history of the Clinton impeachment — this is cited in the opinion — you can’t. Yeah, what was he impeached over? Well, can’t say,” Novack says.

Penguin Random House joined other major publishing houses in arguing against the library restrictions. Supporters of the law like Attorney General Brenna Bird says it’s a critical law that ensures the books in K-12 schools are age-appropriate. The judge’s opinion says school library collections are already curated by local officials for age-appropriate reading. Novack says if a book depicts sex, the state could remove it without considering its literary value, which Novack says would deny students necessary information about the wider world. “If I’m a teacher, doesn’t matter how many students I connected that book to and found that it helped unlock something in them, a desire to learn, to read, to grow — doesn’t matter,” Novack says.

Attorney General Brenna Bird says she will keep on fighting to uphold the law that she says protects schoolchildren and parental rights.