Results for: First Amendment

Portland Overnight Riot Report -- Kind of Boring, but Federal Judge Provides High Comedy
https://redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2020/08/01/portland-ove…ind-of-boring-but-federal-judge-provides-high-comedy-n249862
– The suit alleges that such actions were deliberate and intended to interfere with their First Amendment rights to observe and report … First, what a moronic idea. … Amendment rights of the plaintiffs are being interfered with, they can seek redress for their grievances in the lawsuit.…
Hall-of-Famer Charles Barkley Defends Players Who Refuse to Kneel and Twitter Just Can’t Deal
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2020/07/31/hall-of-famer-ch…ayers-who-refuse-to-kneel-and-twitter-just-cant-deal-n249794
– look at the various “social justice” statements that players are allowed to substitute for their names on their jerseys during the first … In America, we not only have a First Amendment right to peacefully protest, we also have the right to choose not to do so.…
Stop Being Nice: A Rant You're Not Going to Like
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2020/07/31/stop-being-nice-rant-n249754
– In my opinion, we should be having a second Amendment rally every weekend, and businesses should defiantly tell their customers that … I’m sick and tired of hearing stories about people losing everything because their business was burned down by some spoiled first-world…
ACLU Files Suit Against Portland Police to Stop the Livestreaming of Riots
https://redstate.com/alexparker/2020/07/30/aclu-oregon-police-lawsuit-stop-livestream-invasion-of-privacy-n249544
– Executive Director Jann Carson said there’s no excuse for the cops’ unlawful surveillance: “Unlawful police surveillance threatens our FirstAmendment rights.…
Darwin Award: Suspect Gets Nailed for Portland Riot Arson, He Couldn't Take 'Back' the Clue to His ID
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/07/30/darwin-award-susp…d-riot-arson-he-couldnt-take-back-the-clue-to-his-id-n249499
– The first one, I’m convinced has to be some kind of troll, or maybe the guy sucked in too much tear gas and it’s affecting his faculties … “That’s why they made the Second amendment. So that this would not happen.” Wait, what? I’m confused. … They made the Second Amendment so people could riot at a federal courthouse?…
Defendants Charged in Portland Federal Court Shocked to Find the Court Says They Can't Riot While Awaiting Trial
https://redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2020/07/29/defendants-c…says-they-cant-continue-to-riot-while-awaiting-trial-n249312
– As reported first in ProPublica, Federal authorities are using a new tactic in their battle against protesters in Portland, Oregon … said conditioning release from jail on a promise to stop joining protests were overly broad and almost certainly a violation of the FirstAmendment right to free assembly.…
Governors Are Making up Rules as They Go Along – When Does the Public Just Say No?
https://redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2020/07/29/governors…es-as-they-go-along-when-does-the-public-just-say-no-n249114
– subjects — um, constituents — not to travel to their summer homes within the state’s borders, while her husband tried to be the first … Jay Inslee, who told reporters on June 16 he only took off his mask for a press conference, “because of the First Amendment.”…
Joe Being Joe: Biden Finally Does Presser, Awkwardly Only Takes Questions From Pre-Approved List of Reporters
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2020/07/29/joe-being-joe-bi…takes-questions-from-pre-approved-list-of-reporters-n249318
– Then again, if attempting to deny free speech to political opponents, attacking the Second Amendment rights of lawful gun owners, and … Kamala Harris (D-CA), who famously went after Joe on the issue of race during the first Democrat presidential debate in June. … Politico on Wednesday first reported that Biden has already selected Harris, before editing the piece and adding a disclaimer.…
Thomas Sowell Endorses Cruz Because Of The Supreme Court
https://redstate.com/california_yankee/2016/02/16/thomas-sowell-endorses-cruz-supreme-court-n56840
First liberal judges banned school prayer. Then they legalized abortion. They forced us to educate illegal aliens. … Democrat-like support of partial birth abortion as well as other issues including marriage, religious liberty, and the Second Amendment
The EPA Isn’t Handling Its Business - But Insists On Man-Handling Ours
https://redstate.com/setonmotley/2016/02/16/epa-isnt-handling-business-insists-man-handling-n56829
– So unless a subsequent amendment added an authority to the federal panoply – it’s been an unConstitutional addition. … Did Congress pretend to be a unilateral, illegal amendment process and pass legislation creating the EPA? … He pretended to be (a one-man Constitutional amendment process) – and signed an executive order.…
(VIDEO) Watch As Ted Cruz Makes Donald Trump Run From His Own Support Of Planned Parenthood
https://redstate.com/streiff/2016/02/14/ted-cruz-eats-trumps-lunch-on-planned-parenthood-n56787
– The reasoned principle matters sadly was illustrated by the first questions today. … If Donald Trump is president, your Second Amendment will gone… Just like his bizarro-world history concerning WMD, this exchange…
Trump Was the Biggest Loser during the South Carolina Debate
https://redstate.com/california_yankee/2016/02/14/trump-biggest-loser-south-carolina-debate-n56782
– You got to fight ISIS first. You fight ISIS first. … The reasoned principle matters, sadly was illustrated by the first questions today. … I would’ve nominated my former boss Liberman, who was Justice Scalia’s first law clerk.…
Watercooler 02/29/16 Open Thread: 'It's the end of the world as we know it'
https://redstate.com/dansweigard/2016/02/29/watercooler-022916-open-thread-end-world-know-n57181
– Repeal The 17th Amendment,  This is what Utah has voted to ask Congress to do.   … spiraled so out of control that the president of a public university canceled his own students’ approved event- violating their FirstAmendment rights- and a mob of protestors, led by his professors, violently blocked the entrance to Ben Shapiro’s speech sponsored…
Donald Trump Promises To Get Rid Of That Turbulent First Amendment
https://redstate.com/streiff/2016/02/27/donald-trump-promises-get-rid-turbulent-first-amendment-n57127
– Yesterday in a rally in Texas, Donald Trump promised the cheering crowd that if he is elected that he will gut the First Amendment … Rich men buying newspapers is not new and the First Amendment doesn’t say that the only protected press is friendly and owned by people … The first step in totalitarianism is restricting what the press publishes to those things the regime agrees are true.…
Trump's Totalitarian Instincts
https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/02/27/trumps-totalitarian-instincts-n57129
– such thing as Federal libel law – libel law exists as a creature of all 50 states, but each state’s libel law is constrained by the FirstAmendment of the United States constitution. … I saw first hand when I sat in the media section at Trump rally in Cedar Rapids on the day of the Iowa caucuses, how his supporters…
The Vindication of Rick Perry
https://redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2016/02/24/vindication-rick-perry-n57060
– The Court of Criminal Appeals agreed that the First Amendment to the U.S. … The regular and frequent violation of the statute by conduct that is protected by the First Amendment suggests that the statute is…
This Hilariously Ruined Live Report From Gun Range Is Why MSNBC is the Pajama Boy Network
https://redstate.com/absentee/2016/02/24/hilariously-ruined-msnbc-live-report-gun-range-pajama-boy-network-n57059
– But even better than watching is this side-splitting transcript from Newsbusters: ANDREA MITCHELL: Kerry, first to you. … All the Republicans support [inaudible] — Donald Trump has said in speeches past, he supports the First Amendment and he supports the … Second Amendment.…
Watercooler 2/24 Open Thread: The Day After, Loosing the Juice Again, Quick Hits of Weird
https://redstate.com/diamondback/2016/02/24/watercooler-224-open-thread-n57053
– This Week In History Sunday, Feb. 21: First steam locomotive, 1804; first phone book, 1878; NASCAR incorporated, 1948; Malcolm X assassinated … , 1965 Monday, Feb. 22: First Republican National Convention, 1856; first Woolworth’s five-and-dime, 1879; Coolidge first President … Rhodes, first black Senator (R-MS), sworn in, 1870; Khrushchev denounces Stalin, 1956; Warsaw Pact dissolved, 1991 Friday, Feb. 26:…
My Experience With Jason Villalba and Dirty Texas Politics
https://redstate.com/saragonzales/2016/02/22/experience-jason-villalba-dirty-texas-politics-n57009
First, it was his controversial bill to eliminate vaccine exemptions in Texas.  … Not to mention (okay, I will) his horrendous voting record on issues that never made national headlines: in favor of an amendment that … for citizens to record police unless they were 25 feet away, or 100 feet if the citizen happened to be one of those pesky second amendment
Trump, on Acosta Coming Back: 'We'll Throw Him Out'
https://redstate.com/alexparker/2018/11/16/donald-trump-jim-acosta-throw-him-out-n97774
– The President plans to use pressure from other reporters: “But I will say this: Look — nobody believes in the First Amendment more…
'FLOT*TS': Bette Midler Gets Mobbed for Attack on Melania
https://redstate.com/alexparker/2018/11/16/flotts-bette-midler-gets-mobbed-attack-melania-n97773
– Trump occupies; former First Lady Michelle was relentlessly hailed by the press as stylish, elegant, and beautiful. … Melania gets no such treatment whatsoever, and she’s the first occupier of the White House — so far as I know — who is an actual model … The First Lady is a knockout, and the fashion magazines are alllll crickets.…
New York Lawmakers to Propose Legislation to Check Gun Purchasers Online Activity for Hateful or Offensive Speech
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2018/11/16/new-york-lawma…un-purchasers-online-activity-three-years-hate-speech-n97760
– He adjusted his platform accordingly, but he was at that platform in the first place because that was what many Democrats supposedly … This kind of legislation isn’t just an attack on the 2nd Amendment, it’s an attack on the First.…
Sarah Sanders Releases Statement on Acosta Ruling, Calls for "Decorum" From Press in the Future
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2018/11/16/sarah-sanders…es-statement-acosta-ruling-calls-decorum-press-future-n97752
– Needless to say, she wants things to go differently in the future but noted that the court made it clear that the First Amendment doesn … “The court made clear that there is no absolute First Amendment right to access the White House. … Upon his reinstatement, Trump wanted to assure people that the First Amendment does mean a lot to him, but that the press must be respectful…
BREAKING: Judge Orders White House To Reinstate Jim Acosta's Credentials
https://redstate.com/joesquire/2018/11/16/breaking-judge-orders-white-house-reinstate-jim-acostas-credentials-n97733
– pool, the ruling itself – based on the arguments made by the Trump administration – is being praised by even conservatives as a FirstAmendment victory. … Excellent news for the First Amendment. https://t.co/59znErBW50 — David French (@DavidAFrench) November 16, 2018 It appears…
Sarah Sanders Rips Jim Acosta and CNN Over Lawsuit, and She's 100 Percent Correct
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2018/11/14/sarah-sanders-rips-jim-acosta-cnn-lawsuit-shes-100-percent-correct-n97647
– “The First Amendment is not served when a single reporter, of more than 150 present, attempts to monopolize the floor.” … Acosta is no more or less special than any other media outlet or reporter with the respect to the First Amendment,” wrote Sanders. … This was not the first time this reporter has inappropriately refused to yield to other reporters,” the statement continued.…
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