From the New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is The Daily.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard a case that could hand parents with religious objections

a lot more control over what their kids learn

in the classroom, or more specifically, what they don't learn. Today, my colleague Adam Liptack

explains how a case about children's picture books, with titles like Pride Puppy and Uncle Bobby's

wedding, has broad implications for schools across the country.

It's Friday, April 25th.

Adam, welcome back to the show. I feel like we're talking pretty frequently these days.

Seems that way.

So we have had you on the show a lot recently, talking about the growing constitutional crisis that is happening under the Trump administration in this country.

But I just want to acknowledge that that is not what we are going to talk about today, because today we are going to talk about

what feels like a very normal, very interesting Supreme Court case that has some pretty big

implications. Right. Obviously, we have a constitutional crisis or a series of them hanging like a cloud over the court. But

the Roberts Court is still in business, still hearing major cases on culture wars issues.

And on Tuesday, they heard a good one. So tell us about that case.

The case arose from the curriculum of Montgomery County, Maryland public schools.

Montgomery County is a quite liberal suburb of Washington, D.C.

And in 2022, along with all the other storybooks that kids in pre-K through fifth grade read,

they added initially seven new books that included gay and trans characters and themes.

And when they first introduced these new books, they gave parents with religious objections, notice that on a certain day, the books would be discussed in class.

And if you wanted to take your kids out of class, if you wanted to opt out, you could.

And a number of parents did.

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