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To: PubliusMM

“New Alabama bill prohibits welfare money use on liquor, tattoos”

ACLU will take this to court and win.

They’ll argue that tattoos represent a form of “expression” that is protected by the First Amendment, and the courts will agree.

Jes’ predictin’...


6 posted on 07/30/2012 6:28:27 PM PDT by Road Glide
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To: Road Glide
They’ll argue that tattoos represent a form of “expression” that is protected by the First Amendment, and the courts will agree.

The court will also have to be persuaded that the overtaxed taxpayer is obligated, at gunpoint if necessary, to pay for it.

If "freedom of expression" is not cost free, it is no longer freedom of expression, but extortion.

17 posted on 07/30/2012 9:03:36 PM PDT by publius911 (Formerly Publius 6961, formerly jennsdad)
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