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Group asks judge to reject DMV’s plan to pull Confederate license plates

Posted at 3:45 PM, Jul 09, 2015
and last updated 2015-07-09 17:29:10-04

RICHMOND, Va. — The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) are firing back against the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) plan to replace the group’s vanity license plates featuring the Confederate flag.

Last month, Gov. Terry McAuliffe issued the order to the DMV in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling in a Texas case that he said helped authorize his decision.

However, lawyers for the Confederate sons said that not only does McAuliffe not have the power to make such an order, but that the Texas ruling does not necessarily apply to Virginia.

“When comparing the two cases, the procedure for issuing specialty license plates is so vastly different between Texas and Virginia that there is an important legal question as to whether the U.S. Supreme Court’s Walker decision even applies here,” Fred D. Taylor, an attorney for the group, said a in news release.