Dec 5, 2015 – Noting the rise in violence against Muslims and mosques in the wake of the Paris attacks, Lynch added that, “When we talk about the First … amendment we [must] make it clear that actions predicated on violent talk are not American.…

Dec 4, 2015 – Noting the rise in violence against Muslims and mosques in the wake of the Paris attacks, Lynch added that, “When we talk about the First … amendment we [must] make it clear that actions predicated on violent talk are not American.…

Nov 30, 2015 – Not included in the rights Hillary wants to protect: women’s right to own a gun under the Second Amendment. … “We’ve come a long way since Margaret Sanger was jailed in 1916 for opening America’s very first birth control clinic.”…

Nov 28, 2015 – Van Dyke has just recently been charged with first degree murder, over a year later. Chicagoans should be angry as hell.  … The first Amendment exists for a reason, and a profound reason exists here.…

Dec 16, 2015 – Is that true with the First Amendment?” … That [The President] is fine with doing it with the Second Amendment. My question is, how about the First? … Or my favorite, how about the 8th amendment?…

Dec 15, 2015 – It is most certainly not the first time the book has come under attack, and Twain’s classic is one of the most frequently banned books … The school is private, and therefore this wouldn’t be a First Amendment issue.…

Dec 12, 2015 – Here in blue state Illinois that just elected its first Republican governor in 12 years, if the northwest suburbs of Chicago are a … need their FOID card first before they can buy a gun or even look at one out of the case.   … and their Second Amendment rights.  …

Dec 8, 2015 – That having been said, Trump is far from the first person who has proposed something that is facially unconstitutional as a campaign … now, for instance, the Democrats are demagoguing the hell out of a proposal that would allow the executive branch to deny second amendment … In the first place, I don’t think it’s accurate to say that if you disagree with Trump, then what you are saying is that the United…

Dec 7, 2015 – I put that phrase in scare quotes for several reasons; first, because in this country ‘hate speech’ is a political term, not a legal … They just can’t, because of that pesky First Amendment.…

Dec 7, 2015 – For the first time we have several candidates who do not go into the fetal position when they think they may have to make a stand based … should watch some of it to see how well Rubio handles this issue when faced with a panel of three interviewers who are not Second Amendment … And, again, now your Second Amendment right is being impeded with,” he added.…

Jul 7, 2018 – Google “repeal the Second Amendment” and you get almost 2.5 million hits.  … North Carolina and Rhode Island held out until it was guaranteed by amendment.  … Again, both, like the final language of the Second Amendment, refer to individual rights.…

Jul 6, 2018 – McAdam’s contract undercuts that entire argument: Though Marquette is a private, Roman Catholic institution not bound by the First … Amendment, the university promises faculty “the full and free enjoyment of legitimate personal or academic freedoms,” and it explicitly…

Jul 6, 2018 – We need to stand guard and protect the First Amendment as diligently as we do the Second.…

Jul 5, 2018 – Trump fell short, he would vote against a Republican nominee for the first time in his life. … ceremonies they personally or religiously found repugnant, government preferences based on race would be continued, our Second Amendment … place. __________________________ Cross-posted on The First Street Journal. __________________________ ¹ – Wikipedia article on Miss…

Jul 3, 2018 – It has been 25 years since Justice Powell first approved the use of race to further an interest in student body diversity in the context … (“Title VI . . . proscribe[s] only those racial classifications that would violate the Equal Protection Clause or the Fifth Amendment … As a survey of college students discovered, when asked “Does the First Amendment protect hate speech?”…

Jul 3, 2018 – unless he’s writing about anything vaguely connected to Trump: One of the most basic principles of defamation law, mandated by the First … Amendment, is that pure opinion can’t be defamatory. … An opinion, however moronic or unfair, is absolutely protected by the First Amendment unless it implies that the speaker is relying…

Jul 2, 2018 – First, the ruling. … Amendment speech component and implicates his deep and sincere religious beliefs. … (c) For these reasons, the Commission’s treatment of Phillips’ case violated the State’s duty under the First Amendment not to base…

Jul 2, 2018 – I’ll quickly address the second point first. … —Dred Scott, redecided by a war and a Constitutional Amendment.…

Jul 1, 2018 – But if we put a one in front of that 555 feet, we get 1555, the year that our first fathers landed on the shores of Jamestown, Virginia … [Fact Check: The first permanent English in North America, Jamestown, was founded in 1607. … As everyone knows, 16 and 7 are 23 which refers to the Twenty Third Amendment.]…

Jul 1, 2018 – In Janus, the court ruled, on First Amendment grounds, that public-sector employees who do not join their workplace’s labor union cannot … Why, how dare people actually support the First Amendment rights of individuals over the good of the Collective. … Lying about the numbers takes their entire case and throws it in the trash. ______________________________ Cross-posted on The First…

Jun 30, 2018 – This trend of conservatives winning Supreme Court cases on First Amendment grounds has caught the attention, and ire, or the New York … Behold: How Conservatives Weaponized the First Amendment. … Conservative groups, borrowing and building on arguments developed by liberals, have used the First Amendment to justify unlimited…

Jul 19, 2018 – , a former Obama advisor’s prediction for Trump’s family reunification executive order, and so-called political correctness, the First … Amendment, and job security.…

Jul 18, 2018 – In this country, good government means protecting citizens’ First Amendment rights to participate in the competition of ideas – not…

Jul 17, 2018 – The first involved Steve Bannon who was apparently accosted by some woke individual while he perused the shelves of a Richmond bookstore … So Russian collusion, obstruction of justice, the Emoluments Clause, the 25th Amendment, the #Resistance, and manufactured crises haven…

Jul 13, 2018 – This is MSNBC; the viewers don’t know what’s going on in the first place. … anti-consumer zealot, an opponent of preexisting condition protections, a critic of abortion rights and access to contraception, a Second Amendment … Oh — and there is no such legal distinction as an “assault weapon;” nevertheless: Brett Kavanaugh is a true Second Amendment radical…