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struggle4progress

(118,320 posts) Wed Nov 11, 2015, 04:16 PM Nov 2015

KKK 'Adopt a Highway' Case Moved to State Supreme Court (GA)

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NOV. 11, 2015, 10:57 AM EST

... the Court of Appeals transferred the case to the state Supreme Court ...

The state denied the .. group's application for the Adopt-A-Highway program in 2012. The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation sued ...

A judge ruled in the group's favor in November 2014. The state appealed.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/11/11/us/ap-us-kkk-adopt-a-highway.html?_r=0

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KKK 'Adopt a Highway' Case Moved to State Supreme Court (GA) (Original Post) struggle4progress Nov 2015 OP

Please do - I'll take a special trip there to litter... lame54 Nov 2015 #1

I wonder if this will be impacted by the license plate case, Walker v. Sons of Confederate etc. Princess Turandot Nov 2015 #2

Thomas sided with liberals over the KKK? Generic Other Nov 2015 #3

lame54

(35,311 posts)

1. Please do - I'll take a special trip there to litter...

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Wed Nov 11, 2015, 04:32 PM

Nov 2015

Princess Turandot

(4,787 posts)

2. I wonder if this will be impacted by the license plate case, Walker v. Sons of Confederate etc.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Wed Nov 11, 2015, 04:55 PM

Nov 2015

That SCOTUS opinion was issued in 6/2015. (The ACLU filed an amicus brief in that case as well, in support of the loser Sons of etc.) The decision was 5-4 (the liberal justices, plus Thomas).

The KKK, of course, wants their name on the signs that they put up.

Generic Other

(28,979 posts)

3. Thomas sided with liberals over the KKK?

Reply to Princess Turandot (Reply #2)

Wed Nov 11, 2015, 05:25 PM

Nov 2015

I bet he lost sleep deciding which "evil" was worse.

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