After a long battle, Arizona can begin producing its "Choose Life" license plates.
The plates promote life, and funds go, in part, to support adoption and help in problem pregnancies. Jeff Schaeffer of the Alliance Defense Fund took special notice when the state rejected Arizona's first attempt in 2002 when Arizona Life Coalition applied for the specialty license plate. "As a result of that denial, we filed suit against the commission members, and although losing our case at the trial court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that, indeed, the license plate commission had violated the First Amendment rights of the organization," Schaeffer says. The decision, according to Schaeffer, came from the most liberal and most overturned court in the country. "There's really no question, even in the Ninth Circuit, that that's a violation of the First Amendment," he adds. There have been numerous rulings from federal courts favoring the pro-life plates, so Schaeffer was a bit surprised Arizona's attorney general decided to go to the U.S. Supreme Court. "The legal ruling that came down in this case is unimpeachable, and [I] suspect that is why the court decided not to pick up the case," Schaeffer explains.
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