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Maryland revokes ‘DEPORTM’ license plate, citing political hate
https://www.wypr.org/wypr-news ^ | June 30, 2025

Posted on 06/30/2025 10:28:36 AM PDT by 11th_VA

It’s a message one Maryland driver wanted to share with everybody on the road using a vanity license plate. But sometime after the plate was spotted in Bowley’s Quarters in Baltimore County, the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) yanked it.

A photo of the DEPORTM plate, taken June 7, was shared with WYPR. MDOT declined a request for an interview about it but it confirmed that the plate is no longer on the vehicle.

“This plate and several variations have been added to the ‘objectionable’ vanity license plate list,” according to a statement from MDOT.

When someone requests a vanity plate, according to MDOT, the “objectionable list” is checked before it’s issued. Several thousand banned license plate messages are on that list.

DEPORTM is now on the list and is categorized as “political hate.”

There are a number of reasons why a vanity plate can be placed on the “objectionable list” so it can’t be used, including if it communicates a message of any kind about race or ethnic or national origin.

A DEPORTM plate stirred controversy in Utah in 2020, during the first Trump administration.

Jason Gardner with the Utah Tax Commission said once it was brought to their attention they immediately revoked it. Gardner said a plate can’t disparage any group based on their national origin.

“We definitely take it pretty seriously,” Gardner said. “We don’t want to create any road rage with anybody based on something that might be on the license plate.”

MDOT officials would not say when the Maryland DEPORTM plate was first issued or if they were aware of what happened in Utah.

Gardner said Utah has its own “black list” but occasionally an objectionable plate gets issued…

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: firstamendment; maryland; policestate; suemaryland
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lol !!!
1 posted on 06/30/2025 10:28:36 AM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

So supporting the legal act of deporting illegal aliens is now hate? I just saw the DOJ is suing Karen Bass…. Lets sue the Maryland DMV as well


2 posted on 06/30/2025 10:36:47 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: 11th_VA

Did Kilmar Abrego Garcia get his MALD FOTY vanity plates yet?


3 posted on 06/30/2025 10:36:48 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Correction! America is a nation of LEGAL IMMIGRANTS! All of mine came here legally. No free stuff.)
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To: 11th_VA

try d3p0r7m


4 posted on 06/30/2025 10:37:06 AM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back)
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To: 11th_VA

“can’t disparage any group based on their national origin.”

But we can based on concepts of family values, or support of athletic team or choice of one brand name over another.

Free Speech is only free if you share my values.


5 posted on 06/30/2025 10:37:17 AM PDT by spintreebob (ki .h )
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To: 11th_VA

It’s not hate, it’s a policy position.


6 posted on 06/30/2025 10:39:18 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 11th_VA

I can remember quite a long time ago seeing this blonde-headed gal go flying by me on the interstate in a red corvette convertable. The plate was: ILUV2B8 !!!!


7 posted on 06/30/2025 10:48:54 AM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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Meanwhile in Nevada...
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8 posted on 06/30/2025 10:50:36 AM PDT by null and void (Democrats: fake news, fake presidents, fake beliefs, fake policies, fake protesters & fake voters!)
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That’s kinda funny


9 posted on 06/30/2025 10:53:39 AM PDT by 11th_VA
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I thought so when I came out of the Home Depot and saw it...


10 posted on 06/30/2025 10:54:21 AM PDT by null and void (Democrats: fake news, fake presidents, fake beliefs, fake policies, fake protesters & fake voters!)
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To: 11th_VA

What about NUKEM?


11 posted on 06/30/2025 11:11:40 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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“Gardner said a plate can’t disparage any group based on their national origin.”

It’s not national origin. It is LEGALITY. So sick of these bureaucrats defending CRIMINALS!!!


12 posted on 06/30/2025 11:19:09 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: 11th_VA

sue to get it back and claim that the state of mayrland is politically hateful to the owner of the license plate because of his views!


13 posted on 06/30/2025 11:21:49 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: 11th_VA

Meantime, ASSMAN is still acceptable.


14 posted on 06/30/2025 11:59:40 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: 11th_VA

In related news, the “GIV M BENNIES” plate was approved for issue


15 posted on 06/30/2025 12:41:43 PM PDT by happyathome
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To: 11th_VA

But you can hold rallies with hundreds of commie fags waving the flag of a terrorist organization and that’s a-OK.


16 posted on 06/30/2025 12:58:45 PM PDT by From Behind Enemy Lines
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To: 11th_VA

I saw one the other day said, UNVAXED


17 posted on 06/30/2025 1:06:23 PM PDT by Old Yeller (On judgement day, you’ll wish you were biblically correctly, not politically correct.)
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To: bigbob

How about;

MORE ICE


18 posted on 06/30/2025 1:08:02 PM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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Utah has a black list? Uh, oh.


19 posted on 06/30/2025 3:02:19 PM PDT by Tymesup
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To: 11th_VA

Mary is a term used to refer to a gay man and is sometimes Disparaging and Offensive. The state of Maryland needs to change its name.


20 posted on 06/30/2025 3:04:54 PM PDT by Tymesup
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