Supreme Court rejects anti-Muslim group's challenge to DC Metro ads ban
Source: The Hill
BY JACQUELINE THOMSEN - 06/03/19 11:43 AM EDT
The Supreme Court has declined to take up the case of an anti-Muslim group that sought to run ads depicting the Prophet Muhammad on public transit in Washington, D.C.
The justices, in an unsigned order issued Monday, rejected the request from the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) to hear their case over the ads, which they asked to be displayed on the D.C. Metro system. The Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled AFDI as an anti-Muslim hate group.
The ad submitted by the group featured the phrase “Support Free Speech” and then an image of Muhammad, the winning picture of an art contest sponsored by the group.
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) quickly issued a ban on “issue-oriented” ads in 2015 after receiving the submissions, and later rejected the ads.
Read more: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/446643-supreme-court-rejects-anti-muslim-groups-challenge-to-dc-metro-ads
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