Results for First Amendment

  1. No, California Did Not Legalize Child Prostitution https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2016/12/31/no-california-not-legalize-child-prostitution-n65597
    If you just take the first sentence of paragraph 2, it looks like it’s A-OK for minors to engage in prostitution – or at least that … And, we have more horrible laws to deal with in California in 2017, including the ones stripping Second Amendment rights from the people…
  2. GOP Proposes Fines for Temper Tantrums Like Last June's Democrat 'Sit-in' on the House Floor https://redstate.com/jimjamitis/2016/12/28/gop-proposes-fine…per-tantrums-like-last-junes-democrat-sit-house-floor-n65504
    proposed policy, which would have to be approved by the full House when they return in January, would fine a member $500 for the first … That sounds like a good idea at first blush but just being on a watch list doesn’t mean someone is a terrorist. … And that pesky Second Amendment to the Constitution. They so often forget about that one.…
  3. Report: Donald Trump Could Sue Buzzfeed for Releasing Dossier https://redstate.com/mickeywhite2/2017/01/13/report-donald-trump-sue-buzzfeed-releasing-dossier-n66148
    had serious doubts; as to its truth, it might not have the benefit of the constitutional protections of the actual malice rule,” First … Amendment attorney Floyd Abrams explained to LawNewz.com.…
  4. Company That Bought Aborted Baby Body Parts Drops Suit Against the Center for Medical Progress https://redstate.com/prevaila/2017/01/12/company-bought-abor…ed-baby-body-parts-drops-suit-center-medical-progress-n66066
    “StemExpress was the first of Planned Parenthood’s accomplices to file a retaliatory lawsuit against citizen journalists and the first … to seek an unconstitutional prior restraint on our First Amendment rights to speak and publish,” notes CMP Project Lead David Daleiden…
  5. Watercooler 1-11 Open Thread: Gun Rights Roundup https://redstate.com/diamondback/2017/01/11/watercooler-1-11-open-thread-gun-rights-roundup-n66051
    Maybe–the Congresional Second Amendment Caucus is back, and leader Thomas Massie’s Safe Students Act, HR34 would roll back the controversial … This Week In History Sunday, 1/8: First State of the Union address, 1790; Battle of New Orleans, 1815; Crazy Horse’s last battle, … Aero Precision giveaways give me one entry each for the first ten people who use my referral link.…
  6. SJWs Attack Betsy DeVos Because She Opposes Kangaroo Courts https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/01/09/sjws-attack-betsy-devos-opposes-kangaroo-courts-n65961
    They have carried on a lonely fight against the one institution in the nation which has a blatant hostility for the First Amendment…
  7. RedState's WaterCooler! Friday, 1/6/2017 - Open Thread - Feast of Epiphany; When is .3% greater than 100%? https://redstate.com/earhartam/2017/01/06/redstates-watercoo…riday-162017-open-thread-feast-epiphany-3-greater-100-n65831
    Although, if Transgenders want civil rights as transgender, they should first understand their fundamental role in civil community. … First, they’re arrogant in their unlikeness, then defeated by their solitude. … The first Epiphany as an ecclesiastical feast was celebrated the 6th of January in 361 A.D.…
  8. Watercooler 01/05/2017; Judge Rules Citizens Do Have A Right To Criticize Govt.; Finland Starts Universal Income Experiment; University Course In How Not To Be A Man https://redstate.com/joliphant/2017/01/05/watercooler-010520…universal-income-experiment-university-course-not-man-n65763
    That 1st Amendment Does Actually Mean Citizens Can Criticize Elected Officials In 2014, Maple Heights, Ohio, Mayor Jeffrey Lansky … Mayor Lansky, a Democrat, and Brownlee, a Republican, are longtime political foes, and this was not the first time they met in court … “First, facilitators ask students to consider how the students’ opinions about masculinity affect their own perceptions every day.…
  9. The Elon Musk Myth Looks to Contaminate Texas https://redstate.com/setonmotley/2017/01/05/elon-musk-myth-looks-contaminate-texas-n65753
    even with the federal coin – cost way too much and aren’t purchased by anyone outside of uber-wealthy preening elites: “(Tesla’s) first … Like auto dealers’ First Amendment freedom to assemble – completely free of government intervention or say. … To rid ourselves of them – we must first rid ourselves of the federal antitrust precursor: “(S)imply repealing the dealer franchise…
  10. The Epic Fail That Has Been the Obama Presidency https://redstate.com/california_yankee/2017/01/20/the-epic-fail-that-has-been-the-obama-presidency-n66362
    Obama also failed to keep his promise to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term.  … You shouldn’t be shocked by Obama’s failure to reduce the deficit in half by the end of his first term in office. … Obama lost his war on guns — his campaign to repress our Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms.”…
  11. What Will Wednesday's Supreme Court Oral Argument Mean for the First Amendment? https://redstate.com/patterico/2017/01/18/todays-supreme-court-oral-argument-mean-first-amendment-n66385
    Early Wednesday I previewed for you a major First Amendment case that was argued in the Supreme Court today: Lee v. Tam. … Trademark Office (USPTO) to deny trademark protection to so-called “disparaging” trademarks, will be struck down as a violation of the First … Amendment to the U.S.…
  12. A Major First Amendment Case Will Be Argued Today at the Supreme Court https://redstate.com/patterico/2017/01/18/major-first-amendment-case-will-argued-today-supreme-court-n66241
    Tam, a major First Amendment case. Michelle K. … The question presented is whether the disparagement clause is contrary to the First Amendment. … The central purpose of the First Amendment is to prevent the government from engaging in viewpoint discrimination — and viewpoint discrimination…
  13. Trump Doesn't Want to be President Until Monday https://redstate.com/california_yankee/2017/01/17/trump-doesnt-want-president-monday-n66271
    President-elect Trump and presidential candidate promised again and again to do a great many things on the first day of his presidency … You need look no further than his so-called Contract With the American Voter — his plan for the first hundred days of his presidency … Immediately pursue the following six measures to clean up the corruption and special interest collusion in Washington, DC: FIRST…
  14. The Replacement For Obamacare Is Here https://redstate.com/truefreak/2017/01/15/the-replacement-for-obamacare-is-here-n66176
    , here we are, with over 30 state governments, the House, the Senate and (presumably) the Presidency in Republican hands for the first … FIRST THINGS FIRST First, any replacement needs to move the opposite direction of the ACA, and adhere to the constitution. … Furthermore, the 14th amendment assures that each state must honor contracts, agreements and personal ownership across state lines.…
  15. San Francisco PD Stops Cooperating With Federal Anti-Terrorism Investigations https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/02/03/san-francisco-pd-stops-cooperating-federal-anti-terrorism-investigations-n67342
    force entered into an agreement with the FBI that authorized intelligence-gathering by San Francisco officers of people engaged in First … Amendment activities such as religious services, protests and political assemblies.…
  16. The "Money in Politics" Argument Was Killed by Hillary Clinton https://redstate.com/neil_stevens/2017/02/03/money-politics-argument-killed-hillary-clinton-n67303
    We’ve been attacked by “Campaign Finance Reform” laws that strip us of our first amendment rights, and efforts to pass more of them…
  17. Congress Repeals Two Obama Regulations https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/02/03/congress-repeals-two-obama-regulations-n67305
    Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) co-authored an amendment to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law requiring it. … Oil companies and other opponents convinced a federal judge to toss out the first version of the rule in 2013, forcing the Obama administration…
  18. RedState's WaterCooler! Tuesday, 1/31/2017 - Open Thread - First Lady on the Cover of Vanity Fair Mexico; Calendar February 2017 https://redstate.com/earhartam/2017/01/31/redstates-watercoo…lady-cover-vanity-fair-mexico-calendar-february-2017-n67157
    tweeted their February cover featuring First Lady Melania. … Question: Does the 4th Amendment apply to unjustified deadly force to a Mexican citizen? … The first state to ratify the Amendment was Illinois on February 1st and the last of twenty-seven was Georgia, December 6th, 1865.…
  19. Donald Trump's Supreme Court Pick Should Not Be Thomas Hardiman https://redstate.com/patterico/2017/01/30/donald-trumps-supreme-court-pick-not-thomas-hardiman-n67087
    He is solid on the Second Amendment, where his decisions give the greatest hope to judicial conservatives that he would be willing … Hardiman tends to be more authoritarian on the First Amendment and other issues relating to government power.…
  20. Melania Trump Takes Next Step in Libel Suit Against The Daily Mail https://redstate.com/mickeywhite2/2017/01/26/melania-trump-legal-drama-daily-mail-n66967
    The first lady filed the lawsuit in 2016, and has already made one court appearance in Maryland related to the suit. … Amendment activity. … I mean she is the First Lady of Fashion, and inspiring to see.…
  21. Badlands National Park Rejoins the Federal Government After Twitter Rampage https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/01/25/badlands-national-park-rejoins-federal-government-n66852
    Via Ken White, aka Popehat, who is a libertarian First Amendment attorney: OK. Those gov't social media accounts. … — AntifaProvocateurHat (@Popehat) January 24, 2017 /2 I assume nobody's saying that a gov't employee has a First Amendment right…
  22. Back-and-Forth Responses to Women's March All Miss the Point https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2017/01/25/responses-responses-womens-march-miss-point-n66832
    It took over 40 years for the Nineteenth Amendment to be ratified, giving women the right to vote. … At the office, moms are still the parent called first when a child is sick.…
  23. Watercooler 01/08/16 Open Thread: "Assault" Rifles, POTUS, and Islamic perverts https://redstate.com/dansweigard/2016/01/08/watercooler-0108…n-thread-assault-rifles-potus-islamic-sexual-assaults-n55881
    Folks if our base does not know these things we are going to lose the war being waged on our second amendment rights.   … First story involves roaming gangs of “refugee” rapists in Germany.  At least 90 sexual assaults in one evening!  …
  24. How Did an American Hellfire Missile End Up in Cuba? https://redstate.com/ironchapman/2016/01/08/american-hellfire-missile-end-cuba-n55869
    The first is obvious: it’s entirely probable that Cuba and several regimes with vested interests in weakening us now have their hands … It’s about controlling people and taking away their Second Amendment-guaranteed rights, but we’ve all heard the rhetoric used.…
  25. Context on Guns https://redstate.com/beeline/2016/01/08/context-guns-n55879
    First of all, I am not a gun nut. I have used firearms and at one time had obtained the NRA Sharpshooter classification.   … I believe the 2nd Amendment is pretty clear. … In fact, almost 2/3 of deaths from firearms in the first five years of the Obama administration were from suicides.…