First the social liberals pushed their agenda in blue states through the court system. … Then, with the help of Justice Anthony Kennedy, they forced the federal government to recognize gay “marriage” at first for exclusively … The House should vote on them, and Senate Republicans should force amendment votes tacked onto other bills in an effort to expose Democrats…
After the bill was first introduced, conservatives carpet bombed the 1,000-page monstrosity on numerous fronts. … McConnell and Cornyn pushed the first trial balloon of strengthened triggers. … They were predictably shot down, but gave rise to the final ‘goldilocks’ plan – the Corker-Hoeven amendment – which was sold as a grand…
In December of 1865, the several American states ratified the thirteenth amendment constitutionally ending involuntary servitude in … In the twenty-first century, Americans are coming full circle.…
This will require a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution. … The 10th Amendment is important and principles of autonomy and local problem solving like subsidiarity and sphere sovereignty which … the 10th Amendment is designed to help protect are even more important.
10) Standing for a Strong America. …
It’s an unbelievably conflated view of the FirstAmendment.
In legalese, this is called a heckler’s veto. … And with it, they have expelled the FirstAmendment.…
their concern that I’ve swallowed the line of the gun control advocates — that I’ve left the reservation, if you will… Simpson, who first … He opposed a state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in Idaho, is bad on guns, once said he has “a tendency to lean toward … I just donated $25 to Bryan Smith — the actual pro-second amendment conservative in Idaho who has a better record on guns than Mike…
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) was the first to pioneer this strategy in 2012. … In an act of desperation, he went up on broadcast television with an ad that touts his support for a balanced budget amendment, spending … It continues:
“Ellmers voted for a Balanced Budget Amendment to cut the debt and stop the wasteful spending in Washington.…
Charles Boustany is definitely among the first in line. … But this past February was not the first time Boustany carried water for leadership. … Boustany offered an amendment that would have removed Egypt’s accountability for Hamas’ arms smuggling into Gaza (roll call #535, 6…
the leftwing Talking Points Memo, has seemingly failed to grasp that the issue at stake in the Hobby Lobby case is not about the First … Amendment per se, but about the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. … Undoubtedly, a corporation with a FirstAmendment right to speech has one related to free exercise of religion.…
the Illinois Supreme Court ruled a law passed in Illinois which effectively banned carrying a loaded weapon violated the Second Amendment … When new crime statistics were released covering the first quarter of 2014 an amazing thing happened
Chicago’s first-quarter murder … The first three months of the year saw 6 fewer murders than the same time frame in 2013–a 9 percent drop–and 55 fewer murders than…
Less noticed was the direct assault on the FirstAmendment by the four justices who made up the minority in this case. … And here’s how Breyer sums it all up: “Accordingly, the FirstAmendment advances not only the individual’s right to engage in political … In Breyer’s view, the purpose of the FirstAmendment is to see that (in Chief Justice Hughes’s words) “the will of the people” is done…
Congressman Tom Petri (R) hails from Wisconsin’s 6th Congressional District, and since his first few re-election campaigns he’s had … In 2009, Petri voted on the House Education and Labor Committee to approve an amendment offered by Rep. … Democrats in the House later removed the amendment from the Affordable Care Act when it got to the floor.…
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) introduced an amendment that would have allowed states to opt-out of ObamaCare if they established their own … Democrats in the House eventually stripped the Petri-Kucinich amendment from the final version of the Affordable Care Act. … Petri explained that he cast his vote after “we had an amendment in our committee by Dennis Kucinich.”…
down limits on campaign speech and the Supreme Court’s decision previously upholding those limits, which he says “denigrates core First … Amendment speech and should be overruled.”…
Nine years ago the US Supreme Court, in an opinion authored by noted Second Amendment authority John Paul Stevens, eviscerated … the “takings” clause of the Fifth Amendment. … another plan in the works for Fort Trumbull, as the city’s coffers remain empty thanks to a missing tax base, this time “a national first—a…
The religious liberty in the firstamendment is meant to protect the religious as they seek to draw people to them. … But the world demands instead that the firstamendment be used to draw the religious to the world and silence those who refuse to go…
commonsense reform and working to fix our immigration system, House Republicans have voted in favor of extreme measures like a punitive amendment … Wrong Timing
First and foremost, we cannot trust Barack Obama to faithfully execute the laws of the land.…
First you put in two years slogging away, and then it’s off to Comedy Central to work for the likes of John Stewart. … I was under the impression that we did away with that particular difficulty by ratifying and enacting the 13th Amendment.…
Constitution is to limit the power of the federal government and specifically the 10th Amendment states, “powers not delegated to the … For example, first education is a parental issue, then community, then local government and ends with the state as the final and least … But instead of relying on family first and government last, we have turned our unique and once great American way of life on its head…
On the first day of revision, they took out the entire line “one nation under God.” … Although disrespectful to our great nation, we can all agree that it is a choice (under the 1st Amendment) to stand and/or recite the…
First, it means that any dissent with be met with destruction of your livelihood. … We have a 1st Amendment Thingy that already does that. … One of the big questions is how to define bullying in the first place.…
One of the major reasons why Mitt Romney was able to make such rapid inroads against Barack Obama in their first debate, and why … Clinton’s first two years in office were – aside from championing NAFTA and GATT with Republican support and passage of the Religious … Bush had a much longer record than this of bills that drew bipartisan support in his first term.…
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The first lady still says that sort of thing. … To justifying high-handed government interference in business, first and foremost by deciding that the government is within its rights … In his first presidential campaign, late in the 2008 primaries, Obama responded to a debate question from Charlie Gibson by admitting…
First, this doesn’t account for the increased black turnout. What is their plan to win black voters (I don’t have one)? … Romney underperformed the marriage amendment in MN despite spending more money in the state than the pro-marriage campaign.
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