Texas License Plates, the Confederate Flag and the Supreme Court
Category: POLITICS
Why are people willing to pay for the right to put their message on a license plate, rather than just put it on a bumper sticker? Justice Breyer suggests that it is because they want the state's endorsement of their message. The problem, though, is that this is about the state discriminating among private speakers based on whether it approves or disapproves of the message. This, the First Amendment does not permit.
By Geoffrey R. Stone, ContributorEdward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law, Univers..., 2015-06-20