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Vanity Plates, the First Amendment, and a Judge on the Rise

By ADF Alliance Alert

Andrew Cohen writes at Politics Daily: "Judge Livingston then delivered the coup de grace. "The infirmities in Vermont's application of its own statute are amply demonstrated by the case at bar. Byrne applied for the plate JN36TN, which the state refused to issue because Byrne's supplied meaning indicated his intent to refer to the biblical passage John 3:16. However, as Byrne argues, and the record supports, Vermont would have approved that very same combination had Byrne supplied a secular meaning for it ? e.g., `[M]y name is John, I am 36, [and] I was born in Tennessee.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on October 11, 2010 (boomark / email).