Results for: First Amendment

BREAKING: Maine Secretary of State Bars Trump From Presidential Primary Ballot
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/12/28/breaking-maine-bars-trump-from-the-ballot-using-the-14th-amendment-n2168050
– Maine's Democrat Secretary of State decided that the former president was ineligible to seek office under Section Three of the 14th Amendment … The move comes about a week after Colorado’s Supreme Court voted to remove Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment, although … Maine is now the second state whose officials have resorted to using the 14th Amendment in this fashion.…
Trump Ballot Ban: Colorado GOP Appeals to US Supreme Court
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/12/28/trump-ballot-ban-colorado-gop-appeals-to-us-supreme-court-n2168029
– seeking to have the Colorado Supreme Court's decision barring former President Donald Trump from that state's primary ballot on 14th Amendment … The first impact of the appeal is to extend the stay of the 4-3 ruling from Colorado’s highest court, which put its decision on pause … “The Colorado Supreme Court’s decision violates the Colorado Republican Party’s First Amendment associational right to choose its own…
R.I.P. Gaston Glock, Groundbreaking Gun Designer
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/12/27/rip-gaston-glock-groundbreaking-gun-designer-n2168014
– In a piece of sad news for gun owners, shooters, Second Amendment advocates, and concealed-carry folks, we note on Wednesday the passing … The Glock wasn't even the first such gun made with a polymer frame; that honor belongs to the Heckler&Koch VP70, introduced in 1970…
Trump Says Maine Secretary of State Should Recuse Herself From Weighing in on His Ballot Eligibility
https://redstate.com/beccalower/2023/12/27/trump-says-maine…herself-from-weighing-in-on-his-ballot-eligibility-n2168013
– Two challenges, like the ones in Colorado and Michigan, rely on the 14th Amendment argument. … The 22nd Amendment states that no person shall be elected to the office of president more than twice. … Capitol — one on the first anniversary, the other "the day Trump was acquitted in his second impeachment trial."…
Alaska Joins 20 States Suing Biden Administration Over Highway Emissions Rules
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/12/25/alaska-joins-20-st…g-biden-administration-over-highway-emissions-rules-n2167947
– the states on CO2 emissions is not among the enumerated powers granted the national government in the Constitution, and the 10th Amendment … Of course, the federal government has been using the 10th Amendment as toilet tissue since about 1850, so there's that. … Al Gore Goes Off the Rails About Mental Illness and Climate Change, Then It Gets WorseTennessee AG Speaks With RedState About First-of-Its-Kind…
After Getting Dragged, Congressman Deletes Post About the First Amendment and Hate Speech
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/12/24/democrat-congressman-d…etes-post-about-hate-speech-and-the-first-amendment-n2167936
– Amendment or doesn’t care about free speech. … The reality is that the First Amendment does protect so-called hate speech. In the Matal v. … So, hate speech is certainly protected by the First Amendment.…
Why Hate Crime Laws Are Dangerous
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/12/23/why-hate-crime-laws-are-dangerous-n2167891
– The justices ruled that the First Amendment allows bans on cross burnings only when they are intended to intimidate because the action … But as I said then, all the hate crime laws in the world aren’t going to save black folks more than the Second Amendment. … I'd trust my Smith & Wesson to protect my Black life over an anti-Black hate crime bill any day of the week.The Second Amendment is…
Did Gavin Newsom Actually Block a Bill to Criminalize Parents for Speaking out at School Board Meetings?
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/12/21/did-gavin-newsom-actua…e-parents-for-speaking-out-at-school-board-meetings-n2167832
– Perhaps he believes existing laws will be enough to ensure that parents are punished for exercising their First Amendment rights.…
Vermont Man Suing State After Being Arrested for Flipping Off a Police Officer
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/12/21/vermont-man-suing-stat…er-being-arrested-for-flipping-off-a-police-officer-n2167830
– The First Amendment protects the right to engage in rude or offensive speech — including the middle finger — especially when directed … “I respect the police and other first responders,” said Bombard. “But I respect officers who first respect the Constitution. … The First Amendment protects freedom of expression, one of America’s most cherished values.…
The Group That Led the Charge for Trump's Removal From the Colorado Ballot Funded Biden's Campaign
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2023/12/21/the-unethical-beh…e-charge-of-trumps-removal-from-the-colorado-ballot-n2167824
– The Colorado Supreme Court disqualified Trump from the ballot on Tuesday under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. … The fact that Media Matters' David Brock used to be the chair of CREW at one time would have been the first clue.                  … just won before the Colorado Supreme Court in our challenge to keep Donald Trump off the ballot as disqualified under the 14th amendment…
WATCH: Raskin's Disturbing Defense of Removing Trump From Ballot Includes Chilling Words About SCOTUS
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/12/31/raskin-cnn-interview-n2168135
– The first part was what he said about the disqualification process. … First, the Constitution says you can't run if you aren't a citizen of the U.S. That's not questionable. … First, that's more horse hockey when it comes to Ginni Thomas.…
DeSantis and Haley Give the Right Answer on the Question of a Trump Pardon
https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/12/31/desantis-and-haley-g…the-right-answer-on-the-question-of-a-trump-pardon-n2168133
– The next president, even if it is Donald Trump, must make the first order of business pardoning Trump of all possible federal crimes … Trump, but Suspends Decision and Gets Blasted  BREAKING: Colorado Supreme Court Votes to Boot Trump Off the Ballot Using the 14th Amendment…
Do You Live in an Anti-Free Speech State? Jonathan Turley Lays Out the List
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/12/31/do-you-live-in-an…free-speech-state-jonathan-turley-lays-out-the-list-n2168126
– Biden that administration officials “likely violated” the First Amendment and issued a preliminary injunction banning the government … concerning list of states that don't seem perturbed by what the Biden team did and don't seem to fully appreciate the point of the First … Amendment.…
DISCLOSE Act Up For Vote: Call Your Senator
https://redstate.com/aglanon/2012/07/16/disclose-act-up-for-vote-call-your-senator-n43779
– The opening salvo was the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 — it was amended in 1975, and that amendment created the FEC. … of the things we can do, when we win this election, is use whatever tools are available, up to and including a Constitutional amendment … amendment.…
Tech at Night: Safe Web Act, Samsung copycatting, Obama's PROTECT IP/SOPA mastermind rides again [HTML fixed]
https://redstate.com/neil_stevens/2012/07/14/tech-at-night-s…ycatting-obamas-protect-ipsopa-mastermind-rides-again-n43762
– Choke and die on my American First Amendment, suckers. U S A. U S A.…
The Southern Strategy Myth and the Lost Majority
https://redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2012/07/11/the-southern-strategy-myth-and-the-lost-majority-n43726
– Background: The Civil Rights Movement First, a little background. … The Supreme Court during this period essentially rewrote the Fourteenth Amendment to eviscerate the Privileges & Immunities Clause … The first thing he does is look at voting patterns, not just bottom-line statewide Electoral College figures but the actual trends…
Be Quiet Chick-fil-A, You Know the Rule!
https://redstate.com/breeanneh/2012/07/27/be-quiet-chick-fil-a-you-know-the-rule-n43883
– We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. … representative of freedom, Chick-fil-A was not welcome; because nothing says freedom like attacking someone who dares to exercise their first … amendment rights. …
The Debt Ceiling Deal One Year Later
https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2012/07/25/the-debt-ceiling-deal-one-year-later-n43864
– agency or program – discretionary or mandatory – was eliminated; Obamacare was deemed off limits; there was no balanced budget amendment … We got a vote on a balanced budget amendment, which was summarily defeated.  … talk about how the debt ceiling deal would preserve our credit and save us from default, our credit rating was downgraded for the first…
Congressional Republicans Conspiring With Liberals Behind Closed Doors to Raise Taxes
https://redstate.com/erick/2012/07/19/congressional-republic…ring-with-liberals-behind-closed-doors-to-raise-taxes-n43813
– They introduced their internet tax as an amendment to a Senate small business bill, but that bill stalled. … The Marketplace Fairness Act, for the first time, establishes a national sales tax. It does so by hiding behind the states.…
@TheOnion: using dead Sikhs as political props.
https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2012/08/07/theonion-using-dead-sikhs-as-political-props-n43981
– I get it, truly: there’s a dark side to the First Amendment sometimes, and the Onion is currently right in the middle of it.…
Chicken Leaders and the First Amendment
https://redstate.com/rjsantorum/2012/08/03/chicken-leaders-and-the-first-amendment-n43951
– What do chicken sandwiches and the First Amendment have in common?  August 1, 2012. … Emmanuel, now Mayor of Chicago, apparently hasn’t read the first part of the First Amendment about the free exercise of religion. … Let’s lift our voices together and exercise our First Amendment rights to preserve and pass on the torch of freedom.…
Morning Briefing for August 3, 2012
https://redstate.com/erick/2012/08/03/morning-briefing-for-august-3-2012-n43943
– At our first RedState Gathering we had Nikki Haley, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ken Cuccinelli, and Pat Toomey. … It first registered to operate in Colorado on October 4, 2002, and spent the next ten years raising money and directing it to liberal … Liberal organizations in Colorado have been exploiting gray areas surrounding a 2005 amendment to a key financial disclosure law, intentionally…
Tax-Exempt Liberal Groups Exploit Gray Areas of Financial Disclosure Law
https://redstate.com/aarongardner/2012/08/02/tax-exempt-libe…groups-exploit-gray-areas-of-financial-disclosure-law-n43941
– It first registered to operate in Colorado on October 4, 2002, and spent the next ten years raising money and directing it to liberal … Liberal organizations in Colorado have been exploiting gray areas surrounding a 2005 amendment to a key financial disclosure law, intentionally … During his short tenure as Secretary of State, Democrat Bernie Buescher —  a co-sponsor of the 2005 amendment when he served in the…
Tech at Night: Reid's bluff called on Lieberman-Collins, so bill falters. Google fined millions but is it enough?
https://redstate.com/neil_stevens/2012/08/02/tech-at-night-r…o-bill-falters-google-fined-millions-but-is-it-enough-n43931
– I’ve seen people claiming that gun control is in the bill, when it’s just an amendment possibly to be added, along with an anti-Obamacare … amendment going around. … Especially with the ABA-friendly first-to-file system in, finding ways to discourage patent litigation is probably good.…
Best News of the Century: Steve LaTourette Retires
https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2012/07/31/best-news-of-the-century-steve-latourette-retires-n43916
– Last year, he was one of a handful of Republicans to vote against an amendment to bar funds to the Justice Department for programs … But we need members of our party who understand that we have a problem in the first place; that we have a dependency crisis; that we…
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