Virginia banning Confederate flag license plates

A federal judge in Danville has ruled on Virginia’s effort to remove the confederate flag from state license plates.

Herring filed motions to dissolve that injunction.

Judge Kiser’s ruling will not be official until he enters his order, which will also address whether the decision will apply prospectively to new license plates, or retroactively to include existing ones.

It could be weeks before the judge issues an order, a representative with the Attorney General’s Office said. As families laid their loved ones to rest, the Confederate flag flew over the South Carolina state house – drawing criticism from many who see the flag as a symbol of racism.

In a statement later that month on his plan to phase out Confederate plates in Virginia, McAuliffe called the image of the flag “unnecessarily divisive and hurtful”.

But the Supreme Court ruled in June that Texas could reject a similarly designed plate, which Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe says trumps the lower court rulings.

That U.S. Supreme Court decision reversed a lower court ruling that had gone against Texas.

The state will argue that the flag on state-issued plates constitute government speech, while the Sons of Confederate Veterans contend it is protected private speech.

The state Department of Motor Vehicles said it has received 34 requests for the SCV plate between June 24 and July 23.

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