Supreme Court upholds North Carolina's ban on Confederate flag license plates.

The US Supreme Court has declined to review North Carolina's decision to stop issuing specialty license plates with the Confederate flag, which was challenged by the North Carolina chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. The state's Department of Transportation had stopped issuing the plates in 2021, citing their potential to offend. The organization argued that the decision violated its free speech rights, but a lower court and a federal appeals court dismissed the case. The Supreme Court had ruled in a similar case in 2015 that license plates are state property and can be limited in content.