Tennessee Winds Court Fight over Pro-Life License Plate

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“Although this exercise of government one-sidedness with respect to a very contentious political issue may be ill-advised, we are unable to conclude that the Tennessee statute contravenes the First Amendment,” Judge John M. Rogers said in a 2-1 ruling by a three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. In a dissenting opinion, Judge Boyce F. Martin Jr. said the plates should be banned because they amount to unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination.

At issue was the displeasure of both Planned Parenthood and the ACLU with Tennessee’s offer of license plates bearing the message “Choose Life.”

Full story (more than one link is ncessary to get different quotes): sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-317tags,0,2847124.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines
wbz.com/topic/ap_news.php?story=AP/APTV/National/a/a/ChooseLifePlates-aa

 

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Could someone pointout where “viewpoint discrimination” is in the Constitution? I’m even a big 9th Admendment fan, but I don’t think that can be stretched to “I have that right to prevent the government from publically disagreeing with my viewpoint.”