How the Confederate-license-plate ruling could affect Md. and Va.

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How the Confederate-license-plate ruling could affect Md. and Va.


The Maryland version of a license plate honoring the Sons of Confederate Veterans. (Steve Helber/AP)

By Josh Hicks June 18 at 5:49 PM Follow @reporter_hicks
Thursday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing Texas to reject designs for a license plate bearing a Confederate flag could impact Maryland and Virginia, both of which have been under orders from lower courts to permit such images on their tags.
The Supreme Court’s ruling will not force states to change their policies on specialty license plates, but it allows them to reinstate prior restrictions that were previously overturned.
“If the department of motor vehicles or the governor decided to revoke the Confederate-flag specialty plates, they would be authorized to do that, but the state would have to act,” said Maryland Sen. Jamie Raskin (D-Montgomery County), who teaches constitutional law at American University.
[At least nine other states offer the Confederate license plates the Supreme Court says Texas can deny]
Maryland’s Motor Vehicle Administration and the office of Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said Thursday that they’re reviewing the Supreme Court’s decision to determine how it impacts state policy and what steps they should take.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...eb1_story.html




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Despite mourning, statehouse Confederate battle flag remains at full staff

COLUMBIA, SC - JUNE 18: The South Carolina and American flags fly at half mast as the Confederate flag unfurls below at the Confederate Monument June 18, 2015 in Columbia, South Carolina. Legislators gathered Thursday morning to honor their co-worker Clementa Pinckney and the eight others killed yesterday at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images) | Sean Rayford Getty Images

By Schuyler Kropf
The (Charleston) Post and Courier
The Confederate flag flying at the Statehouse in Columbia became part of the Charleston church shooting story Thursday after the U.S. and South Carolina flags were lowered in mourning but the rebel banner was left flying at its full height.
State Sen. Clementa Pinckney, a black Democratic lawmaker and minister, was among the nine people killed by a lone gunman accused of committing a hate crime. The suspect, Dylann Roof, 21, also displayed Confederate sympathies in some social media photographs.
Internet chatter lit up about the debate Thursday.
“When you fly the Confederate flag in your state capital you are sanctioning this terrorism. Just FYI,” Roxane Gay said on Twitter.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/new...e24912556.html

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