Friday in federal court: Confederate flag on Va. license plates to be debated
By Antonio Olivo
July 31 at 6:00 AM
... At a U.S. District Court hearing in Danville, state Attorney General Mark R. Herring’s office will argue that a 14-year-old injunction that keeps Virginia from prohibiting the use of the flag on license plates should be vacated because the Supreme Court found that government-issued items are not protected as free speech under the U.S. Constitution ...
But a lawyer for the Sons of Confederate Veterans argues that the Supreme Court ruling should not apply to Virginia because the state does not have a formal procedure to approve the content of specialty license plates in the same way that Texas does ...
Virginia has issued 1,677 specialty license plates to the state chapter of Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc., the same group involved in the Supreme Court case out of Texas.
In 1999, the Sons of Confederate Veterans sued Virginia over the license plates after the General Assembly prohibited the group’s Confederate flag logo from appearing on them ...
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