WOFL reports, a supporter of President Donald Trump took on the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and got her driver's license picture taken while wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat. Now, the state may make her take the photograph again, but without the hat.
Cheryl Hall’s battle to keep her “Make America Great Again” hat on her head for her Florida state driver’s license has been a drawn out affair.
Hall was asked to take the MAGA hat off for the license photo in March.
"I said, 'Why do I have to take the hat off, when I see a young lady off to my right, and I didn’t point, that has a veil that’s covering around her face?' I didn't understand that,” Hall said.
“So she said to me, 'Well, that's her religion.' I said, 'If that's her religion, this is my religion!' And then she said, 'Well, we do have rules and regulations with the statutes.'"
County spokesperson David Jordan tells WOFL the employee, who was assisting Hall at the time, was following the DMV manual, which states that the picture must be of the full face and a hat can only be worn for religious or medical reasons.
However, Jordan clarified that the actual state statute requires that only the photograph be of the full face.
Hall called Jordan later to challenge the situation, citing religion, and Jordon checked with the state DMV, eventually telling his employee to take the picture showing the full face.
But in a turn of events, Jordan now says his superiors in Tallahassee have told him that they are reviewing their policy and the decision to allow Hall to take the picture with the hat.
According to Jordan, the state is in the process of sending Hall a letter, informing her she will have to retake the picture.
Hall said, "Obviously, you know I’m going to fight that, I will fight it even if I have to take it to an attorney.”
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