Elizabeth Blair writes: On October 20, “A federal judge ordered the Department of Defense to return books about gender and race back to five school libraries on military bases. In April, 12 students at schools on military bases in Virginia, Kentucky, Italy, and Japan claimed their First Amendment rights had been violated when nearly 600 books were removed from the Department of Defense Education Activity schools they attend. US District Court Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles sided with the students and their families, writing that ‘the removals were not rooted in pedagogical concerns’ but rather there was ‘improper partisan motivation underlying [defendants’] actions.’”