Tennessee ordered to pay white nationalist group $46K

[groundloop]

Source: ABC News

A judge has ordered the state of Tennessee to pay more than $46,000 in legal fees to a white nationalist group it unsuccessfully tried to charge for event security costs.

The Tennessean reports the Tuesday ruling approved a large portion of the original $56,000 in legal fee reimbursement requested by the New Century Foundation. The group has hosted its annual conference at the same state facility for years and challenged a new rule last year that required it pay for law enforcement and related damage.

Its founder, Samuel Jared Taylor, sued the Department of Environment and Conservation Director Michael Robertson in September, arguing it was an “unconstitutional security fee.” A judge sided with the group later that year, citing First Amendment rights.

Information from: The Tennessean, http://www.tennessean.com

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/tennessee-ordered-pay-white-nationalist-group-46k-67484745?cid=clicksource_4380645_null_headlines_hed

[TheFourthMind]

1. You get a new sheet! You get a new sheet! You get a new sheet!...

...and new firey crosses for everyone!

[The Mouth]

2. Damned dangerous precedent, though to charge security fees to a group assembly

While we might celebrate it when white supremacists get shut down, the PRINCIPLE of charging a group a huge fee because of the possible security issues involved could just as easily be applied to any progressive gathering.


Maybe even more so since the possibility of a violent disruption of a progressive or liberal group by the right is higher.

[melm00se]

3. +1

[dustyscamp]

4. F that Maga Judge

[marble falls]

5. That'll be spent on a whole lot of meth.