Rutherford Institute files suit over Confederate plate removal

Daily Progress ^ | Friday, October 30, | Dean Seal

[bob_denard]

Attorneys for an Albemarle County-based civil liberties advocacy group are challenging the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles’ order to revoke specialty commemorative license plates bearing the Confederate battle flag.

The Rutherford Institute’s legal counsel filed a petition Wednesday in Brunswick County Circuit Court asking for a review and reversal of the divisive ruling to recall the plates issued to 1,600 members of the state’s division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Gov. Terry McAuliffe called for the change earlier this year when the flag fell into controversy following a racially motivated shooting in June at a South Carolina church, calling it “unnecessarily divisive and hurtful.” That same month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a Texas case that specialty license plates reflect the speech of the governing body rather than individual motorists who purchase such plates.

In August, a federal judge granted Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring’s request to vacate an order mandating the state to issue vanity license plates featuring the flag to members of the heritage organization. Herring said at the time that the state government would not endorse the symbol that it deemed “oppressive.”

[AZLiberty]

How about we start banning symbols of the federal government because some people find them offensive?

[Guenevere]

Good! This insult to the Confederacy will keep expanding if it’s not challenged.

[Sacajaweau]

Good.

None of this "removal" would be happening except for our "Black" ignorant president.

[tbw2]

The irony is how many liberals think the American flag itself is racist.
And you see it in the schools that banned “America day”, punished students for wearing American flag garb on Cinco de Mayo (citing violence fears, but not that the Hispanics who would attack the kids for wearing it were in the wrong), now demands that pro-America clothing not be worn at events because it is deemed political.
So now all cultures are equal, except the symbols of the regime enforcing multiculturalism in the US.

[mrsmel]

To any professionals in law here-how much of a leg does this challenge have to stand on? I don’t see how the governor (even a ‘rat tyrant) can just take it upon himself to ban these plates. Is there much chance of the challenge being successful, in your professional opinion? I am very interested because I just got my SoCV plate in MS, and don’t want to see this come here.

[HokieMom]

Excellent.