Results for First Amendment

  1. Three Reasons the Anti-Gun Crowd Remains Quiet About the Oklahoma Restaurant Shooting https://redstate.com/kimberly_ross/2018/05/27/three-reasons-anti-gun-quiet-oklahoma-n90234
    Good Guys With Guns Stopped a Bad Guy With a Gun When you’re eager to take away Second Amendment rights, this kind of real-life aspect … they’ll receive commendation from those who believe they should not have been in possession of those filthy killing tools in the first … We can’t possibly be for the Second Amendment while children are being gunned down in hallways and classrooms, right?…
  2. Sweet Win For Religious Freedom as California Judge Rules in Favor of Christian Baker https://redstate.com/kimberly_ross/2018/05/26/win-religious-freedom-favor-baker-n90193
    Judge Lampe explained his decision as follows: “The right to freedom of speech under the First Amendment outweighs the State’s interest … “The right of freedom of thought guaranteed by the First Amendment includes the right to speak, and the right to refrain from speaking…
  3. Tomi Lahren Attacked at Minneapolis Restaurant, and You'll Be Shocked by her Supporters https://redstate.com/alexparker/2018/05/23/tomi-lahren-attacked-minneapolis-restaurant-youll-shocked-supporters-n90077
    The first amendment is a beautiful thing – use it. https://t.co/Yx8obh0aH0 — Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) May 23, 2018 Lahren…
  4. Federal Judge: Trump Blocking Twitter Accounts Is Unconstitutional https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/05/23/federal-judge-trump-blocking-twitter-accounts-unconstitutional-n90062
    Trump's blocking of critics on Twitter is unconstitutional, court rules. https://t.co/8fZ6cdKbAL pic.twitter.com/47a0yNYYkb — Knight First … Amendment Institute (@knightcolumbia) May 23, 2018 https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/999343143022747648 The future of technology…
  5. Gun Grabbing Houston Police Chief Threatens Dana Loesch With Legal Action Over NRA Video https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/05/23/gun-grabbing-houston…ce-chief-threatens-dana-loesch-legal-action-nra-video-n90043
    Kevin Williamson has this to say: The Second Amendment, like the First Amendment [editor’s note: Williamson was prescient in this … because Acevedo hadn’t attacked the First Amendment at this point], is a constitutional provision that says, in effect: “You idiots … The First Amendment says what it says, no matter how much that may annoy Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren.…
  6. Anti-Gun Liberals Attempt Boycott Against Publix https://redstate.com/sarah-rumpf/2018/05/22/anti-gun-liberals-attempt-boycott-publix-n90023
    Several liberal activists took to Twitter to denounce Publix’s support for Putnam, focusing on his support for the NRA and Second Amendment … have supported Putnam as their “hometown candidate” — Putnam hails from Polk County, the site of Publix’s headquarters — since he first…
  7. New Poll Sizes Up Andrew Cuomo's 2nd Term; Will Hillary Help or Hurt? https://redstate.com/alexparker/2018/05/21/new-poll-sizes-andrew-cuomos-2nd-term-will-hillary-help-hurt-n89983
    In a bizarre turn of events, Cuomo’s challenger is the former star of something former First Lady Clinton’s husband knows a great deal … He’s been no friend to the 2nd Amendment, resulting in a lawsuit by the NRA; and liberal protestors have previously dubbed him “Governor…
  8. Are We Spreading Political Correctness by Calling it That? https://redstate.com/alexparker/2018/06/09/political-correctness-by-calling-it-that-n90861
    At first, it was merely an idiotic idea coming from the fringe. It was mocked. … Call it what it is: thought policing, tyranny, despotism, totalitarianism, fascism, oppression, repression, radical leftism, anti-First … Amendment, unconstitutional.…
  9. Today President Trump May Have Put the Libertarian Party Out of Business AND Locked Up the Millennial Vote For 2020 https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/06/08/today-president-trum…ibertarian-party-business-locked-millennial-vote-2020-n90817
    One of the first things Jeff Sessions did upon becoming Attorney General and discovering real crime had vanished and law enforcement … earlier, Garner and Warren, who both represent states with legal recreational marijuana, introduced the Strengthening the Tenth Amendment…
  10. Sex Education: Teacher Claims He was Forced to Quit by School's Anti-Religious Transgender Mandate https://redstate.com/alexparker/2018/06/06/sex-education-tea…it-schools-anti-religious-freedom-transgender-mandate-n90720
    This is Berle’s first network performance since his quadruple bypass heart surgery last June 10. … Kluge, who has worked at Brownsburg for four years, believes the mandate violates his religious convictions and his First Amendment…
  11. Dare to Dream: Alyssa Milano Pines for a Day When Women Have Rights https://redstate.com/alexparker/2018/06/06/alyssa-milano-dreams-day-women-can-vote-n90699
    #ERANow — Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) June 5, 2018 First of all, who are the actual 4% that don’t believe women should be … Amendment wouldn't either. https://t.co/7Y9VrJ70rW — Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) June 6, 2018 Good point. … Have you considered reading the 14th Amendment, or no?…
  12. Don't Panic, Anybody: Donald Trump Has Asked an Appeals Court To Let Him Block People on Twitter https://redstate.com/joesquire/2018/06/05/dont-panic-anybody…ld-trump-asked-appeals-court-let-block-people-twitter-n90640
    Social media is changing the way things are done, and Trump is the first President to use it in a deeply personal way – actually interacting … But let’s not pretend that being blocked by the President is some violation of your First Amendment rights.…
  13. Democrisy: The hypocrisy of Kamala Harris https://redstate.com/kentucky_dana/2018/06/05/democrisy-hypocrisy-kamala-harris-n90611
    It has been 25 years since Justice Powell first approved the use of race to further an interest in student body diversity in the context … (“Title VI . . . proscribe[s] only those racial classifications that would violate the Equal Protection Clause or the Fifth Amendment … may be used to batter down anyone who does not go along with leftist groupthink. _____________________________ Cross-posted on The First…
  14. The Masterpiece Cakeshop Decision Is More of a Dire Warning Than a Cause for Celebration https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/06/04/masterpiece-cakeshop-decision-dire-warning-cause-celebration-n90574
    the fact that Anthony Kennedy, who never met a perversion he couldn’t agree to cheer on in the name of tolerance, should be the first … S. ___ (2015), “[t]he First Amendment ensures that religious organizations and persons are given proper protection as they seek to … All of this simply underscores just how close the Free Exercise Clause is to becoming as relevant as the Third Amendment.…
  15. BREAKING. SCOTUS Supports Baker in Gay Wedding Cake Case https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/06/04/breaking-scotus-supports-baker-gay-wedding-cake-case-n90573
    The first is the authority of a State and its governmental entities to protect the rights and dignity of gay persons who are, or wish … “The second,” Kennedy writes, “is the right of all persons to exercise fundamental freedoms under the First Amendment.”…
  16. What the Battle Of Harbert's Fort Can Tell Us About Principles In the Age of Trump https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/06/02/battle-harberts-fort-can-tell-us-principles-age-trump-n90522
    because they say something that someone with high principles doesn’t want to hear–principles that don’t, apparently, extend to the First … Amendment.…
  17. If a Justice Retires, A Look at Trump's 25- Part 2 https://redstate.com/davenj1/2018/06/17/justice-retires-look-trumps-25-part-2-n91135
    The first was his anti-contraceptive mandate decision in a case involving railroad workers.  … Sure to endure the wrath of David Hogg, one of her decisions ruled that Chicago’s ban on firing ranges violated the Second Amendment … That’s because he is a staunch defender of the Second Amendment!…
  18. Trey Gowdy Blisters FBI Conduct During the Clinton Investigation and Questions the Propriety of the Trump Investigation https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/06/14/trey-gowdy-blisters…investigation-questions-propriety-trump-investigation-n91077
    We have the First Amendment. I’m entitled to an opinion,” Page told investigators.…
  19. The Silliness of a "Constitutional Crisis" https://redstate.com/davenj1/2018/06/14/silliness-constitutional-crisis-n91034
    The first is where the Constitution does not say what to do.  A perfect example was the 1841 election. … The 27th Amendment in 1967 resolved the issues left over from the 1841 election.  … First, no level of law enforcement is going to arrest a President while in office. …
  20. U of M Safer for Free Speech After DOJ Sides with Watchdog Group https://redstate.com/ameliahamilton/2018/06/13/u-m-safer-free-speech-doj-sides-watchdog-group-n91005
    Nicole Neily, president of Speech First told Campus Reform: We’re delighted that the U.S. … Amendment rights of students across the country, and we look forward to the court ruling on the merits of Speech First v. … Amendment principles.…
  21. A Wise Latina Thinks You're Stupid if You're a Minority, Poor, or Old https://redstate.com/davenj1/2018/06/13/wise-latina-thinks-youre-stupid-youre-minority-poor-old-n90986
    First, there is no explicit right to vote found in the Constitution.  … There are certainly provisions against discrimination based on race, color or previous servitude (the 15th Amendment), but there is…
  22. Federal Judge Had Role In Hero’s Suicide https://redstate.com/marty-gottesfeld/2018/06/12/federal-judge-had-role-in-heros-suicide-n90964
    His first known close encounter of the federal kind came as a result of his publishing public U.S. federal court records for free. … over $10 to download, PACER fees pose a significant barrier to citizens who wish to scrutinize federal trials which under the 6th Amendment … Indeed, while it seems clear that first, they lack his talent, second, they lack his drive, and third, they are simply too selfish,…
  23. This Was the Week That Saved Free Speech in America https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/06/28/week-saved-free-speech-america-n91593
    For decades the left has been trying to claim that the Second Amendment is a collective right that only comes into play if you are … From the decision: Compelling a person to subsidize the speech of other private speakers raises similar First Amendment con­cerns … We have therefore recognized that a “ ‘significant impingement on First Amendment rights’” occurs when public employees are required…
  24. Some Interesting Facts From the 2017 SCOTUS Term https://redstate.com/davenj1/2018/06/28/interesting-facts-2017-scotus-term-n91587
    Some important decisions were handed down including four that strengthened Constitutional protections under the Fourth Amendment.  … The “Boy, They’re Rude For Asking the First Question Award” goes to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. … The “Most Litigated Amendment Award” goes the Fourth Amendment.…
  25. BREAKING. Supreme Court Rules Public Sector Unions Can No Longer Extort Union Dues From Workers https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/06/27/breaking-supreme-cou…sector-unions-can-no-longer-extort-union-dues-workers-n91545
    The State’s extraction of agency fees from non-consenting public sector employees violates the First Amendment. … Abood is therefore overruled. … (a) Abood’s holding is inconsistent with standard First Amendment principles. … (1) Forcing free and independent individuals to endorse ideas they find objectionable raises serious First Amendment concerns.…