In the first instance, in Scott v. … person”:
The appellee and certain amici argue that the fetus is a “person” within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment … established, the appellant’s case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the Amendment…
First, one Senator needs to use the provisions of Rule 14, to block H.R. 2 from being referred to the Senate Health, Education, Labor … Dan Friedman at the Atlantic has this take:
Republican aides noted they can force a vote by offering the repeal as an amendment, … Or — and this is what he’ll probably do — he could attach repeal as an amendment to something likely to pass the Senate. …
But don’t violate my precious FirstAmendment rights to prevent something I’m not doing and can easily be remedied in any of the above … Tonight was my first night hosting our Bible study. I don’t plan on it being my last.…
She beat an incumbent Democrat her first time running for her seat, becoming the first Republican and the first woman to represent … She is also endorsed by the Coalition of Connecticut Sportsmen for her strong support of the Second Amendment. … First, Walker deregistered as a Republican before joining the Clinton administration, supposedly in order to serve in the federal…
The Court found the prayers in Marsh consistent with the FirstAmendment not because they espoused only a generic theism but because … The Court noted as a matter of historical fact that “[t]he Congress that drafted the FirstAmendment would have been accustomed to…
accused of no actual crime, but are treated like terrorist subversives by Democrats – to the point where they want to rewrite the First … Amendment to silence them.…
Targeted organizations and individuals fought back, suing in federal court to say that their free speech and 4th Amendment rights were … Within a specified period before an election, no organization could spend money talking about policy issues unless they first filed … Progressive Movement, and there is extraordinary pride on the part of many liberals that commonplace tenants of modern liberal ideology first…
We tolerate the eviscerating of our Constitutional 1st Amendment rights as citizens by governments and institutions. … As FirstAmendment rights are being trampled upon, the President assume and exercise powers that are the purview of Congress (think … First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out–
Because I was not a Socialist.…
that it is abhorrent, um, but, the hard part — and this is the hard part about believing in freedom — is, if you believe in the First … Amendment, for example — you have to, for example, most good defenders of the FirstAmendment will believe in abhorrent groups standing … up and saying awful things and uh, we’re here at the bastion of newspaperdom, I’m sure you believe in the FirstAmendment so you understand…
The FirstAmendment won big at the end of February. … In another defining moment for the FirstAmendment, the FCC stood firm earlier this month and rejected a demand to shut down two Wisconsin … And we must always stand up for the FirstAmendment—even when, especially when, it’s “controversial.”…
The political climate regarding 2nd Amendment issues did influence Remington’s decision process. … purchases, increases penalties for people who use illegal guns, mandates life in prison without parole for anyone who murders a first … “For the first time in our almost 200-year history we will innovate, design, and build in one place.”…
Michigan is pressing a federal lawsuit lawsuit on behalf of Luce against the town of Campbell and Kelemen, the police chief, on First … Amendment free speech grounds.…
Governor Mary Fallin vetoed the bill and found herself overridden for the first time, a move hailed by the NRA and other pro-Second … Amendment groups.…
Supervisor Pat Herrity, the member of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors who first raised the alarm about this proposal, tweeted … The staff-initiated zoning amendment would have limited what it considered large gatherings (more than 49 people) to three times in … The fact that I first learned of the proposal the same day that I was to begin hosting a Bible study in my own home made this particularly…
platform for the Democratic Party nowadays, but one thing they have openly and uniformly stood for recently has been opposition to the First … Amendment. … Speech and eviscerate the FirstAmendment.…
This is something the FirstAmendment of the United States Constitution strictly prohibits. … Amendment applicable to speech against abortion.” … Amendment promoted by pro-abortion radicals.…
held, in a 9-0 loss for Martha Coakley (now running for Governor of Massachusetts) that Massachusetts abused its power under the First … Amendment by a blanket ban on protests within 35 feet of an abortion clinic.…
There is good reason for the FirstAmendment to come first, because in three swift strokes, it prevents the State from controlling … You could extrapolate much of the rest of the Bill of Rights from that FirstAmendment, by pondering it at length. … Without the protections of the FirstAmendment, the fate of man is either tyranny or anarchy – in either case, a world in which your…
firm of Davis Wright Tremaine, FIRE is suing several universities that manifestly and unconstitutionally deprive their students of First … Amendment rights.…
I’ve had to suspend that rule today because the name calling is in some of the titles of the articles, first lines, and captions of … I just can’t do a respectable job of opposition research if I don’t at least read the first sentence. … Erickson for managing to get their knickers in a knot over celebrating the reinforcement of the I Amendment…which by the way is the…
Indeed, Sanders’ failed 2002 amendment proposing to restrict the bank’s subsidies garnered only 22 Republican votes but had 111 Democratic … American business, first in the finance sector but spreading to embrace large corporations, has ceased to be an ally of Americans and…
of the state’s law prohibiting “cohabitation” — the language used in the law to restrict polygamous relationships — violates the First … Amendment guarantee of free exercise of religion, as well as constitutional due process.…
