Results for: First Amendment

While the House GOP Dithers, Their Ambitious Oversight and Accountability Agenda Withers
https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2023/01/05/while-the-hous…mbitious-oversight-and-accountability-agenda-withers-n683854
– Scalise, presumed Majority Leader to McCarthy’s Speaker of the House, who recently laid out the GOP’s ambitious floor schedule for the first … illegal migrants at the border if the Secretary of DHS does not have operational control” • Make permanent “the long-standing Hyde Amendment
Journalist Paul Sperry Busts Adam Schiff Over Effort to Get Him Banned from Twitter
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/01/04/journalist-paul-s…am-schiff-over-effort-to-get-him-banned-from-twitter-n683429
– that Schiff would try to muzzle a journalist because that raises all kinds of constitutional questions about a violation of the FirstAmendment.…
BREAKING: Jim Jordan Nominates McCarthy on Second Speaker Ballot; McCarthy Still Doesn't Have the Votes
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2023/01/03/breaking-jim-jord…speaker-ballot-mccarthy-still-doesnt-have-the-votes-n682826
– It’s been a dramatic first working day of January on Capitol Hill, as the House has just failed to elect a Speaker on the second ballot … First, pass the bills that fix the problems. In two years’ time we have a border that is no longer a border. … Amendment liberties, they need to be held accountable.…
MIT Goes Against the Grain, Releases a Stunning Statement Endorsing Free Speech
https://redstate.com/alexparker/2023/01/02/mit-goes-against…releases-a-stunning-statement-endorsing-free-speech-n682655
– school makes clear things such as “direct threats, harassment, plagiarism, or other speech that falls outside the boundaries of the FirstAmendment” won’t be protected.…
Amy Klobuchar Doubling Down on Dems' Scary Efforts to Suppress Your Speech
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/01/02/amy-klobuchar-dou…g-down-on-dems-scary-efforts-to-suppress-your-speech-n682287
– @SenatorCardin: "If you espouse hate, if you espouse violence, you're not protected under the First Amendment. … Her desire to suppress “certain kinds” of speech is exactly why we have a First Amendment. … No, I’m thinking two-thirds of Americans are not calling for violations of the First Amendment.…
The House GOP Has a Big, Bold, and Conservative Floor Agenda; Let's Hope They Actually Act on It
https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2022/12/30/the-house-gop…ative-floor-agenda-lets-hope-they-actually-act-on-it-n681096
– of the Republicans, as the 118th Congress gets underway, with Steve Scalise (R-LA) unveiling the ambitious floor schedule for the first … illegal migrants at the border if the Secretary of DHS does not have operational control” • Make permanent “the long-standing Hyde Amendment … But, this isn’t our first rodeo with the GOP, and they excel at talking the talk whilst not actually walking the walk.…
Bill Maher Skewers the Woke Left for Being Against 'Freedom'
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/12/30/bill-maher-skewers-the-woke-left-for-being-against-freedom-n680930
– on social media, specifically saying we should follow what Europe has done when what they have done is crazy and contrary to the FirstAmendment. … Cardin showed he had no real understanding of the First Amendment. And he’s been in Congress for 35 years.…
Illinois 'SAFE-T Act' on Hold After Judge Rules It Unconstitutional
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2022/12/30/illinois-safe-t-act-on-hold-after-judge-rules-it-unconstitutional-n680841
– Hours later, the SAFE-T Act was introduced in the Illinois House for the first time. It passed at 11 a.m. … They also stressed concerns regarding the constitutionality of the Act: First, the SAFE-T Act eliminates cash bail. … The most recent amendment to the Act made several significant changes to it: Expands the scope of forcible felonies for which a…
Dem Senator Gives Away the Game on Suppressing Speech, Including Scary Take on 1st Amendment
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/12/29/dem-senator-gives…ressing-speech-including-scary-take-on-1st-amendment-n680572
– So, one would think he might have an understanding of the Constitution and the First Amendment, after being in Congress for 35 years … @SenatorCardin: "If you espouse hate, if you espouse violence, you're not protected under the First Amendment. … The First Amendment explicitly protects hateful speech, and it even protects speech that might mention violence, unless that speech…
Absent SCOTUS’s Intervention, Union Forgeries Will Certainly Continue
https://redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2022/12/28/absent-sc…intervention-union-forgeries-will-certainly-continue-n679506
– In the first, a Spokane, Wash. homecare provider named Cindy Ochoa, argues the state completely failed to provide her procedural due … Under well-established First Amendment law, diverting a percentage of Ochoa’s wages to the union — whose actions, by their very nature…
Federal Judge Blocks New Jersey Gun Control Expansion
https://redstate.com/kiradavis/2023/01/09/federal-judge-blocks-new-jersey-gun-control-expansion-n686109
– The SCOTUS Bruen ruling last year restored second amendment freedoms that had been log-jamming gun ownership in far left states like … all, the Supreme Court was clear that in order for any gun control legislation to pass constitutional muster under the second amendment … Democrat leaders called the ruling just the”first step in a long process.”…
Bump Stock Ban Overturned by the Fifth Circuit Setting up a Supreme Court Battle
https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/01/09/bump-stock-ban-overt…the-fifth-circuit-setting-up-a-supreme-court-battle-n685939
– There are at least two challenges to the regulation based on the “takings” provision of the Fourth Amendment. … When ATF first considered the type of bump stocks at issue here, it understood that they were not machineguns. … First and foremost, the BATFE, under pressure from Trump, criminalized possession of a previously legal firearm attachment.…
3 Ways the Federal Government Is Being ‘Weaponized’
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/01/09/3-ways-the-federal-government-is-being-weaponized-n685970
– Indeed, FBI agents declared war on the Orange Man What Is Bad™ even before he first became president. Russiagate, anyone? … Now that Republicans are in control of the House, his chances of infringing on Second Amendment rights are close to nil.…
Journalist Paul Sperry Has More to Say, as Adam Schiff Starts Acting Nervous
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/01/08/journalist-paul-s…has-more-to-say-as-adam-schiff-starts-acting-nervous-n685409
– In articles for RealClearInvestigations, I outed his anonymous “whistleblower” from the first impeachment of President Trump. … This is the oath @AdamSchiff violated:“I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution [incl the First Amendment
Mitch The Turtle Rolled Over. He Needs to Go
https://redstate.com/jimthompson/2023/01/08/mitch-the-turtle-rolled-over-he-needs-to-go-n685379
– Although we like to refer to the First Amendment as the, well, the First Amendment, it was the third approved by Congress. … Congress had approved an Amendment that would have proportioned congressional districts at 50,000. … If that Amendment had been adopted, imagine the actual chaos in Congress with 6,400 members.…
Tucker Carlson Caught up in Joe Biden's Censorship Regime
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/01/07/tucker-carlson-caught-up-in-joe-bidens-censorship-regime-n684983
– The government is not supposed to use private companies as proxies to quash the First Amendment rights of Americans. … NO ONE is safe when the first amendment is violated! … In other words, there was coercion involved in this, and if that doesn’t add up to a violation of the First Amendment, then it no longer…
The First Post-Roe March for Life Is Even More Critical Than the First One in 1973
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2023/01/20/the-first-post-ro…ife-is-even-more-critical-than-the-first-one-in-1973-n691142
– This is the first year that Roe v. … The Hyde Amendment has saved over 2 million lives and is arguably the most impactful pro-life policy in our nation’s history, but now … The first was the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which would require that medical care be provided to an infant born…
What Christopher Wray Said at the WEF Raises More Questions
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/01/19/what-christopher-wray-said-at-the-wef-raises-more-questions-n690828
– Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 19, 2023 But it didn’t look like the FBI was at all constrained by the Constitution and the FirstAmendment in going after people’s speech on Twitter and that’s the problem.…
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Shows How Democrats Feel About Free Speech
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/01/17/rep-sheila-jackson-lee-shows-how-democrats-feel-about-free-speech-n689610
– The progressive left has shown time and time again that they do not believe in the First Amendment or the concept of free speech. … However, that pesky First Amendment has prevented them from using the power of the state from squashing opposing voices. … The First Amendment protects all of us, and this new law doesn’t.”…
Joe Biden Tells Americans to Get 'F-15s' if They Want to Take on the Government
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/01/16/joe-biden-tells-a…to-get-f-15s-if-they-want-to-take-on-the-government-n689543
– Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time he’s said something like this. … First, he spoke about “deer wearing kevlar vests” again, a favorite saying of his that makes no sense. … Authoritarians like Joe Biden are exactly why we have a Second Amendment.…
Elon Highlights 'Concerning' Process to Destroy Secret Instructions from FBI to Twitter
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/01/16/elon-highlights-c…s-to-destroy-secret-instructions-from-fbi-to-twitter-n689323
– “What basis is there for the FBI first of all even to be engaged in censorship on social media to the extent they were,” Sacks said … He said first of all, it was a violation of the First Amendment if they were pushing censorship, but on top of that, they weren’t even…
Democrat Introduces Legislation to Make White People Criticizing Minorities a Federal Crime
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/01/16/democrat-introduces…white-people-criticizing-minorities-a-federal-crime-n689270
– Forgetting that such would be a blatant breach of the First Amendment, it also exposes a wild totalitarian desire by Lee and those…
OpEd: Government Should Fight Second Amendment Redlining as Aggressively as Fair Housing Redlining
https://redstate.com/dennis_santiago/2023/01/14/oped-governm…as-aggressively-as-it-fights-fair-housing-redlining-n688863
– The Second Amendment remains under attack, and it’s time for Congress to demand that “Fair Access to Banking Services” rules be re-prioritized … Except this isn’t the first time Well Fargo has been in the news doing this.…
The House GOP Finally Gets Serious on Abolishing the IRS
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2023/01/13/the-house-gop-finally-gets-serious-on-abolishing-the-irs-n688213
– Since the 1913 ratification of the 16th Amendment, Congress has had the power to lay and collect taxes on income from whatever sources … First, the local and state government stooges resisted, then they maligned and outright attacked parents—until they couldn’t.…
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