Results for First Amendment

  1. Supreme Court Rules That a Religious Order Bound With a Vow of Chastity Does Not Have to Pay for Contraceptive Coverage https://redstate.com/streiff/2020/07/08/supreme-court-rules…tity-does-not-have-to-pay-for-contraceptive-coverage-n245673
    Hobby  Lobby  Stores decision, which ruled that forcing employers to provide birth control coverage potentially violated the First … Amendment, the Obama administration constructed a test to be used by employers seeking the exemption to comply with the SCOTUS decision … “Today, for the first time, the Court casts totally aside countervailing rights and interests in its zeal to secure religious rights…
  2. To Fight COVID-19, a Florida Criminal Defense Attorney Hits the Courtroom in a Hazmat Suit https://redstate.com/alexparker/2020/07/07/samuel-j-rabin-florida-attorney-court-hazmat-suit-covid-19-n245645
    The Florida attorney’s a “safety first” kind of guy. That’s merely my interpretation, but I could point to a bit of evidence. … prepared for a bit of this:  -ALEX   See a few more pieces from me: ‘I Want to Be United’: Herschel Walker Speaks Out on the First … Amendment and a Biblical View of Reparations We Are So Pathetic: School in Virginia Considers Dropping the Wasp as Its Mascot Due…
  3. 'I Want to Be United': Herschel Walker Speaks Out on the First Amendment and a Biblical View of Reparations https://redstate.com/alexparker/2020/07/06/herschel-walker-defund-the-police-freedom-of-speech-sins-of-ancestors-n245556
    FILE – In this March 8, 1984, file photo, New Jersey Generals owner Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Herschel Walker at a news conference in New York, after agreeing on a four-year contract. As President-elect Trump came of age as a public figure during the 1980s, he opened up...
  4. Activists Demand University Fire All Professors Deemed ‘Racist,’ Hold Black-Only Graduation https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2020/07/06/activists-demand…professors-deemed-racist-hold-black-only-graduation-n245462
    The group —  Black Pitt — is also demanding an end to First Amendment free speech rights for all employees at the public university … It is about predisposition, elimination of protection under the First Amendment, assumption of guilt, and predetermined punishment. … As a public institution, the University of Pittsburgh is bound by the First Amendment in its decisions concerning when to discipline…
  5. President Trump's Rushmore Speech Was Only 'Dark and Divisive' If You Actually Hate America https://redstate.com/streiff/2020/07/05/trump-rushmore-speech-freaks-america-haters-n245359
    He remains first in our hearts to this day.  … Amendment. … A nation must care for its own citizens first.  We must take care of America first.  It’s time.  (Applause.)…
  6. Newsom: No Singing to Worship God but Worship at the Altar of Black Lives Matter However You Want https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2020/07/03/newsom-no-singing-n245245
    effectively reached into the churches and informed them how they can and can’t worship, violating a little known law called the First … Amendment.…
  7. State University Memo Suggests Combatting Racism Will Now Be a Condition for Enrollment https://redstate.com/alexparker/2020/07/01/university-colora…acism-non-negotiable-condition-enrollment-employment-n245124
    While as a public institution we must acknowledge each person’s First Amendment right to free speech, we strongly encourage anyone…
  8. Unions Combat Economic Uncertainty by Stealing Dues https://redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2020/07/01/unions-combat-economic-uncertainty-by-stealing-dues-n245047
    AFSCME that mandatory dues and fees in the public sector are a violation of the workers’ First Amendment rights. … They are even allowed to take over several city blocks, ban first responders from helping those with medical emergencies, and desecrate…
  9. School Choice Scores Major SCOTUS Win as John Roberts Finally Finds a Conservative Issue He Supports https://redstate.com/streiff/2020/06/30/school-choice-scores…berts-finally-finds-a-conservative-issue-he-supports-n244961
    Montana’s state constitution, however, contains what is known as a “Blaine amendment,” which prohibits any use of state funds to support … Most importantly, though, it is not as if the First Amendment cares. … At the time of the First Amendment’s adoption, the word “exercise” meant (much as it means today) some “[l]abour of the body,” a “[…
  10. John Roberts' Codependent Relationship With Stare Decisis https://redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2020/06/29/john-roberts-codependent-relationship-with-stare-decisis-n244901
    Even with 5 votes in hand, I do not think Roberts would support an “up or down” revisiting Roe as the “first bite at the apple.” … Hellerstedt COULD have been the first step — if the decision had come four years later.  … obstacle in the path of women seeking a previability abortion” and therefore violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment…
  11. Progressives Dox And Target The Business Of The St. Louis Gun-Toting Couple Who Confronted Protesters https://redstate.com/jeffc/2020/06/29/progressives-dox-and-t…st-louis-gun-toting-couple-who-confronted-protesters-n244908
    Don’t hire lawyers who will cause personal injury to innocent peaceful protesters demonstrating their first amendment right to peacefully…
  12. Morning Briefing for January 20, 2012 https://redstate.com/erick/2012/01/20/morning-briefing-for-january-20-2012-n41905
    But it will go beyond that.I’m told reliably that Governor Perry will head up a 10th Amendment project for Speaker Gingrich to rally … For the past two weeks we have heard Mitt Romney was the first non-incumbent to win both Iowa and New Hampshire. Wrong!…
  13. Let the Full House Decide Major Legislation https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2012/01/26/let-the-full-house-decide-major-legislation-n41984
    First it was Harry Reid’s minibus bills.  … Are they worried that there is not enough time to pass all these wonderful bills through an open amendment process on the floor? …
  14. (With a Nod to Christopher Wren), if You Seek the Establishment, Look Around You... https://redstate.com/conservativecurmudgeon/2012/02/09/with…er-wren-if-you-seek-the-establishment-look-around-you-n42160
    In 1978, only three months after Proposition 13 passed in California, Michigan passed Proposal B, called The Headlee Amendment, which … Two illustrative examples come to mind from that 1982 campaign… Example the First: I had a good friend whose father was a higher…
  15. Proposed 'Pelosi Provision' of the STOCK Act unveiled yesterday. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2012/02/08/proposed-pelosi-provision-of-the-stock-act-unveiled-yesterday-n42148
    And, naturally, the amendment that would ban this practice in the future has been named the ‘Pelosi Provision’ by Republicans. … It wouldn’t be the first time that a troublesomely reformist piece of legislation got revised out of existence, while out of camera … Slaughter, it’s not exactly Eric Cantor’s fault that she was incapable of getting it passed in the first place……
  16. This Week in Washington - February 6, 2012 https://redstate.com/brian_d/2012/02/06/this-week-in-washington-february-6-2012-n42109
    The first argument they will make is that the upcoming highway bill does not spend enough of your tax dollars.  … The “Public Corruption Prosecution Improvement Act” was dropped into this bill as an amendment by Senator Pat Leahy (D-VT).  …
  17. Daily Links - February 3, 2012 https://redstate.com/absentee/2012/02/03/daily-links-february-3-2012-n42090
    Also on this date in 1815, the world’s first commercial cheese factory was established in Switzerland, laying the groundwork for annoying … On February 3rd in 1870, the 15th Amendment was ratified, establishing that the “right of citizens of the United States to vote shall … And on February 3rd in 1913, the 16th Amendment was ratified, establishing that “Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes…
  18. The First Amendment And Obamacare https://redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2012/01/31/the-first-amendment-and-obamacare-n42026
    The First Amendment thereof reads as follows.…
  19. The Proposition 8 Decision: Not Rational https://redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2012/02/15/the-proposition-8-decision-not-rational-n42244
    decision of Judge Vaughan Walker holding that the people of the State of California violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment … That is, in fact, why we have a Ninth Amendment (“The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny … history of its enactment (two things conspicuous by their absence in Perry, as it would be laughable to suggest that the 14th Amendment…
  20. Trampling on the First Amendment: Obama's Contraceptive Mandate https://redstate.com/tex_whitley/2012/02/14/trampling-on-the-first-amendment-obamas-contraceptive-mandate-n42229
    Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Anna Franzonello to discuss the controversial contraceptive mandate in Obamacare, how it violates our freedom of religion, and what legislative and legal steps are being taken to...
  21. Only Solution to ObamaCare’s Tyrannical Attack on Religious Freedom is Full Repeal https://redstate.com/senator_jim_demint/2012/02/13/only-solu…tyrannical-attack-on-religious-freedom-is-full-repeal-n42211
    Nancy Pelosi famously decreed that Congress must first pass ObamaCare to find out what’s in it. … These latest regulations, including the President’s ‘accommodation’ announcement, are a blatant infringement on Americans’ First Amendment … Amendment were an earmark.…
  22. How Dumb Do You Think I Am? https://redstate.com/mikehammond/2012/02/10/how-dumb-do-you-think-i-am-n42182
    And does the First Amendment apply any less to my religious beliefs. by Michael E.…
  23. Femi-regulars for Rick Santorum https://redstate.com/conservativewoman/2012/02/27/femi-regulars-for-rick-santorum-n42369
    The kind of women who didn’t feel it a sign of weakness to put others first and the kind of women who don’t feel that they must put … My evening dress may not be hunter orange or camouflage, but don’t assume I don’t love the Second Amendment… or that I’m not a damn…
  24. Federal Judge Strikes a Blow Against Regulatory Fascism https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2012/02/22/federal-judge-strikes-a-blow-against-regulatory-fascism-n42328
    I’m not really here to provide a legal analysis of the First Amendment issue anyway.…
  25. David Waldman of Daily Kos: Know-Nothing Bigot https://redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2012/02/22/david-waldman-of-daily-kos-know-nothing-bigot-n42326
    Then House Speaker Blaine sponsored the anti-Catholic 1875 Blaine Amendment to the Constitution (defeated in the Senate but enacted … (The sixth is the first Hispanic Justice, Sonia Sotomayor).…