The battle for "Choose Life" license plates continues in Illinois.
Messages displayed on license plates must be approved by the Illinois legislature -- and "Choose Life" has been rejected. That led to a lawsuit which was won on the federal district court level, but overturned on appeal. The Illinois Right to Life Committee has been involved in the legal battle. Spokesman Bill Beckman tells OneNewsNow his group decided to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined to hear the case. But Beckman feels that may not be the last word. "You know there's other cases similar to ours, I think in New York for one, that haven't gone up that far yet. So I guess there's always further opportunities down the road," he notes. Beckman surmises that if the court accepts one of those cases, justices will rule on the side of free speech because that is what the license plate is all about.
Messages displayed on license plates must be approved by the Illinois legislature -- and "Choose Life" has been rejected. That led to a lawsuit which was won on the federal district court level, but overturned on appeal.
The Illinois Right to Life Committee has been involved in the legal battle. Spokesman Bill Beckman tells OneNewsNow his group decided to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined to hear the case. But Beckman feels that may not be the last word.
"You know there's other cases similar to ours, I think in New York for one, that haven't gone up that far yet. So I guess there's always further opportunities down the road," he notes.
Beckman surmises that if the court accepts one of those cases, justices will rule on the side of free speech because that is what the license plate is all about.
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