New Hampshire court upholds COPSLIE vanity plate

Free speech about whether cops lie as allowed on New Hampshire license plates.

In a unanimous decision, the state Supreme Court agreed with the arguments of David Montenegro, who wanted the vanity plate reading “COPSLIE” to protest what he calls government corruption.

State law prohibits vanity plates that “a reasonable person would find offensive to good taste.” But the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union argued that the law is unconstitutionally vague and gives too much discretion to a person behind a Department of Motor Vehicles counter.

New Hampshire had argued that state workers were right to deny the plate, because the phrase disparages an entire class of people — police officers.

The justices said that state law does not define the phrase “offensive to good taste.”

By: William

retired military , former cop, lifelong gym rat and doting grandfather alive and living in Maine