FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va.—A Virginia delegate and congressional candidate have sought to prohibit Barnes and Noble from selling two books—“Gender Queer” and “A Court of Mist and Fury”—directly to minors while a pending lawsuit in the Virginia Beach Circuit Court determines whether these two books meet obscenity standards.
The restraining orders, filed on Wednesday by state delegate Tim Anderson on behalf of Tommy Altman, a Republican candidate for Virginia’s second congressional district, followed Judge Pamela Baskervill’s orders on the same day, asking the publishers or authors of the two books to respond within 21 days to the allegation that the contents are “obscene.”…