Check this out:
An Arizona agency wrongly denied a pro-life group permission to print the slogan ‘Choose Life’ on state license plates, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday.
The Arizona License Plate Commission generally allows non-profit groups to highlight their causes on license plates, but denied the Arizona Life Coalition permission to produce a specialty plate with the ‘Choose Life’ slogan.
The Arizona Life Commission alleged the denial violated its First Amendment right to free speech. A three-judge federal appeals panel agreed:
‘The commission ignored its statutory mandate and acted unreasonably in violation of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Go figure.
Who knew they had such conservative/originalist judges over there in San Francisco?
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Here’s a link to Reuters’ version of events.
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Here’s a link to the actual text of the opinion.
