The Supreme Court has declined to review a Llano County, Texas, fight over local officials' removal of a group of titles from public libraries that could reverberate far beyond local bookshelves.

The big picture: The clash that pits First Amendment rights against government and parental controls is playing out across the country, with access to books concerning race, gender and identity often caught in the crosshairs. • "Our government inserted itself into the personal reading choices of the citizens," lead plaintiff Leila Green Little told Axios in an interview on Tuesday. "If that's not something important to speak up for, I don't know what is."

Driving the news: The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up the challenge against the removal of more than a dozen books from a centra

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