{"id":217,"date":"2015-06-18T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/06\/18\/legal-trend-texas-wins-no-confederate-license-plate-but-not-for-the-reason-you-think\/"},"modified":"2015-06-18T15:58:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T15:58:00","slug":"legal-trend-texas-wins-no-confederate-license-plate-but-not-for-the-reason-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/legal-trend-texas-wins-no-confederate-license-plate-but-not-for-the-reason-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Trend: Texas wins. No Confederate License Plate. But not for the reason you think."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Supreme Court sided with Texas denial of the confederate license plate design. One would naturally think the ruling hinged on free speech, but alas, one would be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The US Supreme Court decision found that Texas could deny the licnese plate because the license plate itself is the property of Texas and refelct government speech.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/politics\/texas\/article\/Texas-allowed-to-block-issuance-of-Confederate-6335164.php\">Houston Chronicle<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/politics\/articles\/2015-06-18\/confederate-flag-license-plate-bid-rejected-by-u-s-high-court\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/law\/2015\/06\/18\/confederate-license-case-key-excerpts-from-the-opinions\/\">WallStreet Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Supreme Court sided with Texas denial of the confederate license plate design. One would naturally think the ruling hinged on free speech, but alas, one would be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The US Supreme Court decision found that Texas could deny the licnese plate because the license plate itself is the property of Texas and refelct government speech.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/politics\/texas\/article\/Texas-allowed-to-block-issuance-of-Confederate-6335164.php\">Houston Chronicle<\/...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-trend","category-txdmv","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}