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Judge rules in favor of Confederate number plates

The leader of Florida's Children of Confederate Veterans says he is delighted with a judge's ruling on the group's effort to create a specialty number plates displaying the Confederate flag.

The plate includes the Confederate flag and a coat of arms worn by Confederate soldiers from the state.

Last week, a judge ruled it unconstitutional the system the states Legislature uses to approve new specialty number plates. Judge Paul Hislop said the law limits the First Amendment rights of groups such as the Children of Confederate Veterans.

The the state was sued by the group after it was unable to get the number plates approved.

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, which licenses over 90 specialty number plates, said the judge's ruling does not require the agency to take action.

"There does not appear to be any impact on the department in respect to a specific directive to move forward and take any type of action, nor does it compromise any of the department's current specialty number plates," department spokesman David Westberry said.

The Legislature could end up rewriting the law on what is required to get a plate approved.

The Children of Confederate Veterans commander, Paul Heskey, did not disclose the next move for his group.

"No general will give you his battle plan," he said, noting the group has options.

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