A License To Conceal? Colorado DMV Takes Squishy Stance On Vulgarities

State Bill Colorado: “Mark Silverstein, the legal director of the ACLU of Colorado and a critic of the current plate-review system, believes the process is unconstitutional under the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Cohen v. California (1971). In a 5-4 ruling, that court’s majority noted that it’s difficult for government officials to make ‘principled decisions’ in purging vulgar words from public spaces because, as John Marshall Harlan II wrote, ‘one man’s vulgarity is another’s lyric.’”