Eric Zorn: Muslim woman's lawsuit proves it's time to stop the nonsense and end anti-headgear rules for driver's licenses
by Eric Zorn, Chicago Tribune
Sep 09, 2019
2 minutes
It's ridiculous.
A Muslim woman filed a federal civil rights suit Aug. 26 in Chicago against the office of Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White over its policies pertaining to the wearing of religious head coverings in driver's license photographs.
The general rule is no hats, caps, scarves, helmets or the like for the required "head and shoulder, full-faced color photograph." But the law allows for "the wearing
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