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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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To: Amendment10

Ratified by whom? Those elected or those imposed by fiat via the reconstruction act?


21 posted on 12/05/2014 1:18:21 PM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. – Robert Heinlein)
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To: thackney

No, the feds are involved because a lower court told Texas they were wrong to reject the plate and Texas has appealed.


22 posted on 12/05/2014 1:18:39 PM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: WayneS

Thank you for the correction. I read it wrong.


23 posted on 12/05/2014 1:21:58 PM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
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To: Amendment10

Actually, the 14th Amendment itself did not do all that on its own.

A “progressive” supreme court DECIDED that the 14th amendment did all that.

I venture to guess that many states would not have ratified it if they had known what the democrats were going to do with it.


24 posted on 12/05/2014 1:23:26 PM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: Blue Ink
...the government of Texas is subservient to the government of the United States...

I hope you don't call yourself a conservative with that keyboard.

25 posted on 12/05/2014 1:25:49 PM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: GIdget2004

Whew hew! Go Sons of Confederate Veterans!!!

http://scvtexas.org/


26 posted on 12/05/2014 1:28:47 PM PST by servantboy777
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To: Blue Ink

>>The South fought a war of rebellion against the United States government and lost.<<

Good grief man, do your homework.


27 posted on 12/05/2014 1:30:25 PM PST by servantboy777
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To: Licensed-To-Carry

Let’s see. A group of southern cadets fired on a Union ship supplying Ft. Sumter. Then the Confederate army fired on Ft. Sumter. Then Lee invaded the North at Bull Run. The South calls it that because the North acted aggressively when Lincoln wanted to preserve the Union. Got it.


28 posted on 12/05/2014 1:31:16 PM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: Blue Ink

Malarkey!


29 posted on 12/05/2014 1:32:55 PM PST by beelzepug (You can't fix a broken washing machine by washing more expensive clothes in it.)
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To: Blue Ink
I would agree with your argument as long as the state issued NOTHING but official state designed license plates, with no special customization offered for any particular group or purpose.

Once a state government starts allowing "special" license plates with logos from schools, non-profit organizations, political organizations, etc., they open the door to free speech issues, even as it relates to a "document" issued by the state.

30 posted on 12/05/2014 1:32:57 PM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: GIdget2004

Stupid.

License Plates should just be that, a Plate Number & Name of State and maybe the state’s motto and that’s it.

There should be no specialized plates, especially political ones.

If Conservatives get to put a Choose Life, God is Great or Confederate flag on their plates, then the Liberals are also going to get their Pro-Choice, God is imaginary and Gay Rainbow Flag plates

If you want to make a political statement buy a bumper sticker, the government, state or otherwise shouldn’t be involved in nonsense like this


31 posted on 12/05/2014 1:34:58 PM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: a fool in paradise

Providing a unique identifier of vehicles involved in crimes is not a compelling argument for the state when it comes to crime. Vehicles do not commit crimes. License plates are removable. The state wants their Tax Stamp in plain sight. Even the lowly, parking citation or red light camera, screams that the purpose of license plates is to enhance revenue for the state. Where the state screwed up is when they permitted special designs (to generate more revenue), but denied some groups add space while permitting others.


32 posted on 12/05/2014 1:35:08 PM PST by Steamburg (Other people's money is the only language a politician respects)
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To: mrmeyer; All
"Ratified by whom? Those elected or those imposed by fiat via the reconstruction act?"

Thank you for bringing that up. The 14th Amendment was not ratified under the honest application the Constitution’s Article V imo, but “ratified” by the Union as the spoils of winning the Civil War.

As I have mentioned elsewhere, the original Constitution arguably died with the Civil War, the present Constitution with its ignored Article V and 10th Amendment debatably version 2 or higher.

33 posted on 12/05/2014 1:35:22 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: SkyDancer

How could Lee “invade” a place in which he was already resident?


34 posted on 12/05/2014 1:35:22 PM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: Blue Ink

Just keep your ass in CA. The Sons of Confederate Veterans in Texas will have no problem with having this flag on their license plates.


35 posted on 12/05/2014 1:36:01 PM PST by ohioman
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To: qam1
If Conservatives get to put a Choose Life, God is Great or Confederate flag on their plates, then the Liberals are also going to get their Pro-Choice, God is imaginary and Gay Rainbow Flag plates

They already do in many states.

With that said, I agree with you about how license plates SHOULD be issued.

36 posted on 12/05/2014 1:37:33 PM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: WayneS

This whole thing has been debated here on FR for months on end ad nauseam. I didn’t know you were a Civil War veteran still fighting it.


37 posted on 12/05/2014 1:38:28 PM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: Steamburg

The annual tax stamp is the inspection sticker and license sticker (now just one) which in Texas is placed in the windshield on the driver’s side.


38 posted on 12/05/2014 1:38:30 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: Steamburg; GeronL; Slings and Arrows
Where the state screwed up is when they permitted special designs (to generate more revenue), but denied some groups add space while permitting others.

That same argument could be made for denying letter-number vanity plate combinations as well.

39 posted on 12/05/2014 1:39:58 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: bigbob

The Governor should very publicly declare that he will now sign an Executive Order declaring it perfectly fine and that the Fed has absolutely no say.

follow the leader...


40 posted on 12/05/2014 1:41:21 PM PST by DanielRedfoot (Creepy Ass Cracker)
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