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Court to review Confederate flag on license plates [SCOTUS]
AP ^ | 12/05/2014 | Mark Sherman

Posted on 12/05/2014 12:28:05 PM PST by GIdget2004

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1 posted on 12/05/2014 12:28:05 PM PST by GIdget2004
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To: GIdget2004

What the hell business is it of the feds what Texans put on their license plates?


2 posted on 12/05/2014 12:30:21 PM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: GIdget2004

Guess they have a lot of free time on their hands and no sense on what’s important.


3 posted on 12/05/2014 12:30:44 PM PST by maddog55
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To: GIdget2004

You can put little stick-on flags on or near your plate. The Civil War (or the war of Secession) was about states rights not slavery - Lincoln made it into that.


4 posted on 12/05/2014 12:33:53 PM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: GIdget2004

***Texas offers more than 350 specialty plates,***

Do they have a COME AND TAKE IT! plate?


5 posted on 12/05/2014 12:34:22 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (I survived I-35W through Fort Worth in Rush hour!)
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To: GIdget2004
The case involves the government's ability to choose among the political messages it allows drivers to display on state-issued license plates.

Some messages are more equal than others, apparently.

6 posted on 12/05/2014 12:35:24 PM PST by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician. Some assembly required.)
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To: bigbob

“What the hell business is it of the feds what Texans put on their license plates?”

Exactly, the State or Texas has decided not to allow the Confederate License Plate and it is no place for the federal courts to step in and force Texas to issue the Confederate Flag plates.


7 posted on 12/05/2014 12:36:11 PM PST by Oliviaforever
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To: GIdget2004

Never even thought of the Confederate flag and slavery in the same breath....And then all this PC cr** started.


8 posted on 12/05/2014 12:38:11 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: GIdget2004

Another day. Another piece of nit wittery.

How deep is the rabbit hole?


9 posted on 12/05/2014 12:44:25 PM PST by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: GIdget2004
The only Confederate flag that means anything is this one:


10 posted on 12/05/2014 12:46:05 PM PST by stormer
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To: bigbob
What the hell business is it of the feds what Texans put on their license plates?

The feds are involved because Texas denied the plate, but the individuals are pushing to get it allowed.

11 posted on 12/05/2014 12:47:00 PM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Both the following are available:


12 posted on 12/05/2014 12:49:15 PM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
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To: GIdget2004
My favorite historical American is U.S. Grant. I also think he's the greatest military man the US ever produced.

That's my disclaimer. I'm getting so almighty tired of pusillanimous girly-men trying to erase the Confederate States of America from US history that I'm almost ready to get a Confederate Battle Flag and flying it in front of my home.

The Confederacy generated a litany of GREAT, GREAT role models if these gonadless, illiterate liberals would take five minutes and just read the history...just once...before trying to tear it all apart.

Sorry for the rant. These semi-virs want to tear it apart...that, and they can't read.

13 posted on 12/05/2014 12:52:00 PM PST by stevem
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To: bigbob

It’s their business because the government of Texas is subservient to the government of the United States. The South fought a war of rebellion against the United States government and lost.

The losers in war do not get to dictate the terms of their surrender. It doesn’t matter that a hundred fifty years have passed. You lost the right to fly that flag in an American governmental capacity when you lost that war. One of the outcomes of the war: the flag of your country is the stars and stripes and no other.

I don’t care if you fly that flag in your front yard; you are back jn the union, and your rights under the Constitution have been restored. I care very much that an arm of the State is issuing a flag other than the American on state documents, which is what a license plate is.

I have to put up with people flying flags other than the American flag in my state, California, in their front yards; I do not have to put up with foreign flags on official state documents or in front of state buildings. That goes for the Confederate flag.

There is no room in our increasingly balkanized country for any but the American flag.


14 posted on 12/05/2014 1:03:26 PM PST by Blue Ink
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To: bigbob

It’s only important from the standpoint that some Texas technocrat at the Department of Revenue, Motor Vehicle Division thinks that they get to arbitrate free speech. The only reason License plates exist is to insure revenue collection. Where did I hear about abuse of power to insure revenue collection? Could that have been New York City?


15 posted on 12/05/2014 1:03:31 PM PST by Steamburg (Other people's money is the only language a politician respects)
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To: Blue Ink

Re-read my post: I meant that Texas is doing the right thing in opposing those who would force the government to issue the plate, not that Texas is already issuing the plate.


16 posted on 12/05/2014 1:08:58 PM PST by Blue Ink
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"What the hell business is it of the feds what Texans put on their license plates?"

Your point would have been reasonable before the 14th Amendment (14A) was ratified. But when the states ratified 14A not only did they commit themselves to respect constitutionally enumerated protections, but they also gave the feds the power get involved in issues concerning possibly unreasonable abridgments of constitutionally enumerated rights by the states.

17 posted on 12/05/2014 1:10:15 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: Steamburg
The only reason License plates exist is to insure revenue collection.

Also provided a unique identifier for vehicles in crimes and hit and run activity.

18 posted on 12/05/2014 1:15:49 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: GIdget2004

What is there to “take on”?

They either respect the right to free speech or they allow the government to infringe on it.

I did not sue anyone when the city of Washington, DC started putting “Taxation Without Representation” on THEIR license plates without reading the Constitution to learn the correct, legal status of that particular District.


19 posted on 12/05/2014 1:16:42 PM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: SkyDancer
That should be the War of Northern Aggression.
20 posted on 12/05/2014 1:17:57 PM PST by Licensed-To-Carry (Every time you vote for a democrat, you put another nail in the coffin of the USA.....)
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