News: Supreme Court: Texas Can Keep Confederate License Plate Ban

LuLuDrops

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The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Texas did not violate the First Amendment when it refused to allow specialty license plates bearing the Confederate battle flag. Such plates, Justice Stephen G. Breyer wrote for the majority, are the government’s speech and are thus immune from First Amendment attacks.

The vote was 5 to 4. The court’s other three liberal members joined Justice Breyer’s majority opinion, as did Justice Clarence Thomas.

“As a general matter,” Justice Breyer wrote, “when the government speaks it is entitled to promote a program, to espouse a policy or to take a position.” Were this not so, he said, the government would be powerless to encourage vaccinations or promote recycling.

People use specialty license plates to suggest that the government endorses the messages they bear, he wrote. Otherwise, he said, people “could simply display the message in question in larger letters on a bumper sticker right next to the plate.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/19/us...ates.html?_r=0

Thomas doing something right for once

Skywalker

Let's just go on ahead and exterminate that RACIST & TREASONOUS emblem.

LuLuDrops

The amount of sudden losses for the flag

Achilles.

The confederate flag finally getting the treatment it deserves.

Caesar

Chucko

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Originally posted by LuLuDrops

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/19/us...ates.html?_r=0

Thomas doing something right for once

People complain about the conservatives on the court but it has been the conservatives swinging a lot of the votes your way of late. When will the Liberal judges ever cross that line.

Even when Thomas does something good you still insult him.

Toya

They are NOT playin with this flag anymore

Adonis

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Originally posted by JakeKills

The confederate flag finally getting the treatment it deserves.

Its a symbol of treason and racism. It was always doomed.

DevonDreams

Doc

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Originally posted by Chucko

People complain about the conservatives on the court but it has been the conservatives swinging a lot of the votes your way of late. When will the Liberal judges ever cross that line.

Even when Thomas does something good you still insult him.

Who insulted him?

I know it's hard being a conservative on ATRL, but relax.

LuLuDrops

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Originally posted by Chucko

People complain about the conservatives on the court but it has been the conservatives swinging a lot of the votes your way of late. When will the Liberal judges ever cross that line.

Even when Thomas does something good you still insult him.

He surprised me because even when most of the other conservatives join the liberals, he still manages to stay with Scalia 9/10 times; so much so that everyone calls him his lackey. If there's a 7-2 decision on an issue, it's probably guaranteed to be a Scalia-Thomas opinion.

MP2K

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Originally posted by Doc

Who insulted him?

I know it's hard being a conservative on ATRL, but relax.

Achilles.

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Originally posted by Chucko

When will the Liberal judges ever cross that line.

They don't have to because they tend to be on the correct side of the line in the first place?

lancelovesgaga

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