The Bill of Rights was implemented, or should I say
demanded, by the States to protect their sovereignty and the rights of their
citizens from the abuses of the Federal Government. The Constitution wouldn’t have passed without
it. Not one State would’ve cast aside the
Articles of Confederation for this new form of government without this
indemnification. But now we have federal
judges impeding upon what is left of a States prerogative:
RALEIGH A federal judge has ruled
that North Carolina cannot issue “Choose Life” license plates without offering
a choice of plates with a different viewpoint.
U.S. District Court Judge James Fox
ruled Friday that the state’s attempt to offer “Choose Life” plates only is
unconstitutional because it is “viewpoint discrimination in violation of the
First Amendment.”
The ruling comes 15 months after the
American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on behalf of four
"pro-choice automobile owners" who contended the "Choose
Life" plates were state-sponsored discrimination.
Attempts to persuade the
Republican-led legislature to amend legislation to include “Respect Choice”
plates or “Trust Women. Respect Choice” plates failed.
No “Choose Life” plates have been
issued. Fox halted sales while the ACLU lawsuit was pending.
The 2011 law, which approved other
specialty plates, too, would have directed proceeds from the "Choose
Life" plates to the Carolina Pregnancy Care Fellowship, a nonprofit
pregnancy care ministry.
“This is a great victory for the
free speech rights of all North Carolinians, regardless of their point of view
on reproductive freedom,” Chris Brook, legal director of the ACLU’s North
Carolina Legal Foundation, said in a statement. “The government cannot create
an avenue of expression for one side of a contentious political issue while
denying an equal opportunity to citizens with the opposite view.”
The Progressives are all about
precedents; not principles. Maybe they
should consult Barron v. Baltimore. The
Marshall Supreme Court ruled that the first eight amendments in the Bill of
Rights did not apply to the States, only to the Federal Government. How convenient that today’s justices forget
about that.
http://www.basicsproject.org/constitutional_literacy/government/incorporation.htm
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