Results for First Amendment

  1. 5th Circuit: Texas Can Now Enforce Drag Show Law https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/02/27/5th-circuit-texas-can-now-enforce-drag-show-law-n2199646
    panel said only one plaintiff in the case had standing and sent the lawsuit back to the lower court to reevaluate the plaintiff’s First … Amendment claim.The key point seems to rest in the term "sexually illicit content."…
  2. Appeals Court: Trump Now Allowed to Oust Public-Sector Unions https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/02/27/appeals-court-trump-now-allowed-to-defenestrate-public-sector-unions-n2199644
    reasons.Six unions representing about 800,000 federal civilian employees sued the administration last year, alleging violations of the First … Amendment.…
  3. To the Surprise of No One, U.S. Catholic Bishops Stake Out a Misguided Position on Birthright Citizenship https://redstate.com/streiff/2026/02/27/to-the-surprise-of-n…out-a-misguided-position-on-birthright-citizenship-n2199638
    Supreme Court argument on that issue scheduled for April 1.One of President Trump's first acts was to sign the Executive Order titled … This claim is not supported by the debates on the Fourteenth Amendment and is a subject of abuse.BACKGROUND:Stopping Trump's Birthright … At its core, this case is not solely a question about citizenship status or the 14th Amendment.…
  4. Shocking New Report: CFPB Adds $160-253 Per Loan in Consumer Costs https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/02/25/shocking-new-report-cfpb-adds-160-253-per-loan-in-consumer-costs-n2199577
    money that could be put to better use, or better still, not spent at all.I've been writing in opposition to this boondoggle since it first … That would take a long legal battle to prove, though, despite what seems to me to be the very clear wording of the Tenth Amendment.…
  5. Morning Minute: America Is Winning...and the Dems Won't Stand for It https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2026/02/25/morning-minute-n2199546
    are going to remember exactly what they saw: a chamber full of Democratic lawmakers who, when asked point-blank to put Americans first … home to satisfy a debt to the government, and keeping the surplus value as a windfall, violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment … more than needed to satisfy a tax debt but sold for fraction of its real value constitutes an excessive fine under the Eighth Amendment…
  6. Uh-Oh: New Poll Could Spell Doom for Democrats’ Shameless Gerrymander Scheme in Virginia https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/02/23/new-polling-show-ba-dems-in-big-trouble-over-gerrymandering-n2199473
    However, since this is the first polling that captures the sentiment around the Democrats' attempt at an extreme gerrymander in Virginia … panel and replace it with a new amendment giving boundary-redrawing responsibilities to state lawmakers – and Democrats control both … An April 21 referendum on the new amendment has been halted as a Republican lawsuit against the state Board of Elections works its…
  7. Morning Minute: I'm Not Saying It Was Aliens... https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2026/02/20/morning-minute-n2199370
    Fails to Reach House Floor Before Session AdjournsGun owners in the Land of Enchantment aren't out of the woods yet, but Second Amendment … And now, for the very first time, Russia is truly, completely isolated.The Trans Ice Rink Shooter Story Just Took a Wild TurnOne of…
  8. The Anti-ICE 'Shutdown Days' Prove Johnny and Julie Can't Read or Write, but They Sure Can Protest https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/02/20/va-and-nc-prove-t…t-johnny-cant-read-or-write-but-he-sure-can-protest-n2199359
    The first step is to actually teach civics in the first place. … “We continue, as a school division, to allow students to express their First Amendment rights, but we also believe we have to teach…
  9. Is the SAVE America Act Worth Nuking the Filibuster? Signs Now Point to Yes. https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/02/18/is-the-save-americ…worth-nuking-the-filibuster-signs-now-point-to-yes-n2199307
    more volatile House of Representatives, although that role as a "cooling saucer" was in part nullified by the ill-advised 17th Amendment … all, was supposed to represent the various state governments, not the population; another notion that got whacked by the 17th Amendment … The Democrats are going to hit us with this at the first opportunity. Let's hit them back first.…
  10. Giving Equal Time to the Facts About Colbert, the FCC, Censorship, and Broadcasting Standards https://redstate.com/bradslager/2026/02/19/giving-equal-time…lbert-the-fcc-censorship-and-broadcasting-standards-n2199341
    previously.UPDATED: Stephen Colbert Makes Newest Dumb Censorship Claim; CBS RespondsTo start the autopsy on this controversy, the first … We hold that the statutory right of access, as defined by the Commission and applied in these cases, properly balances the First Amendment…
  11. Federal Workforce Now Hits 60-Year Low – Time for More Cuts https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/02/18/federal-workforce-now-hits-60-year-low-time-for-more-cuts-n2199291
    supported the swamp.I've often said and written that, in the wildly unlikely event I were ever elected president (hoo boy), one of my first … cut the federal employment needs to continue, and spending has to be slashed.I would point out that the second follows from the first … A plain reading of the 10th Amendment, then, would indicate to Washington, "You can't do these things.…
  12. 1.35 Million Signatures Force Showdown on Voter ID Democrats Tried to Kill https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/02/18/135-million-signat…force-showdown-on-voter-id-democrats-tried-to-kill-n2199286
    Assemblyman Carl DeMaio says supporters are preparing to submit 1.35 million petition signatures to qualify a Voter ID constitutional amendment … It would require proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote for the first time, require a government-issued photo ID when casting … information tied to a valid government-issued ID in addition to signature verification, and authorize formal audits of voter rolls.DeMaio first…
  13. UPDATED: Stephen Colbert Makes Newest Dumb Censorship Claim; CBS Responds https://redstate.com/bradslager/2026/02/17/stephen-colbert-h…censorship-claim-and-this-one-might-be-even-dumber-n2199252
    original storyStrap yourselves in, gang, we are set now for a week of Trump-authoritarian-censorship-democracy-fearing opponents-First-Amendment-election … The party does not allow any name on a ballot without first pledging to dedicate their life to bringing down the president.…
  14. Newsom’s $450 Million 911 Debacle Reminds Why We Oppose Federal Welfare https://redstate.com/redstate-guest-editorial/2026/02/16/new…n-911-debacle-reminds-why-we-oppose-federal-welfare-n2199218
    By Seton MotleyYet again - here is the Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution:Tenth: “The powers not delegated to the United States … “The same week he was first sworn in as governor, Newsom said, ‘The idea that it's 2019, and we are using analog systems designed decades … “That's the fancy way of saying that the next-generation system gets more information to first responders even faster, while allowing…
  15. New Yorkers Wake to the Islamic Call to Prayer https://redstate.com/eli-shepherd/2026/02/17/new-yorkers-wake-to-the-islamic-call-to-prayer-n2199208
    Quietly at first. … The First Amendment is not selective. And it should not be.…
  16. Morning Minute: Swampbound and Down https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2026/02/16/morning-minute-n2199199
    Hegseth (First Amendment / Speech-Debate Clause “Seditious Six”), Judge Richard Leon (D.C.)…
  17. Believe It! An Historic Housecleaning of Congress Is Coming This Fall https://redstate.com/andrewmalcolm/2026/02/15/cleaning-out-congress-n2199163
    Congress.Today, things have changed – a lot.We have a president who was a political rookie and a DC outsider when he won his very first … He’ll be 69 in 2029.As commonsensical as a political age limit seems, setting one would require a constitutional amendment. … The actual amendment itself was initially proposed in 1789 by the very first Congress.…
  18. Sunday Gun Day Vol. III Ep. XXX - Great GunTubers: 6 Shooting-Related YouTube Channels https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/02/15/sunday-gun-day-vol…eat-guntubers-six-shooting-related-youtube-channels-n2199151
    Now this here is a range-time channel with some social and 2nd Amendment commentary added in. … I won’t go into that, other than to say I hope they are getting their Anatidae linear, because they are still the one 2nd Amendment … First, here’s an example of Kentucky Ballistics’ work.…
  19. Don Lemon Pleads Not Guilty After Calling Minnesota Church Protest a ‘Clandestine Mission’ https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/02/14/don-lemon-pleads-n…ling-minnesota-church-protest-a-clandestine-mission-n2199146
    “For more than 30 years, I’ve been a journalist, and the power and protection of the First Amendment has been the underpinning of my … The First Amendment, the freedom of the press, the bedrock of our democracy.”Federal prosecutors allege Lemon was not simply observing … If they believe he crossed the line, the First Amendment defense is not going to do the heavy lifting for him.…
  20. Virginia Supreme Court Hands Dems Huge Win, Allows Outrageous Gerrymander to Move Forward https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/02/13/scova-makes-ruling-on-redistricting-referendum-n2199118
    publish the amendment three months before the election, as required by law." … will go forward before the Court decides the merits.In short: Virginians will vote first. … approved by Virginians in 2020 – with an amendment that gives that power, instead, to lawmakers.…
  21. 'Horsefeathers!': Judge Steps in, Freezing Pentagon Move Against Sen. Kelly Over Military Speech https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2026/02/12/judge-steps-in-free…entagon-move-against-sen-kelly-over-military-speech-n2199086
     In the accompanying 29-page opinion, Leon concluded that Kelly is likely to succeed on his First Amendment retaliation claim, … be required to go through the military appeals process so the military can have the first crack at adjudicating his First Amendment … The First Amendment "is a limitation on the power of Congress," NLRB v. Cath.…
  22. 'You Disgust Me!' Ron Johnson Unloads on Smirking MN AG for Encouraging Violent Anti-ICE Protesters https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/02/12/you-disgust-me-sen-r…ellison-for-encouraging-violent-anti-ice-protesters-n2199081
    But you'll never find me being against the First Amendment. … I'll always be for the First Amendment," Ellison responded.ELLISON: "Sir, that never happened!…
  23. Morning Minute: I Don't Want to Wait for Our Lives to Be Over https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2026/02/12/morning-minute-n2199072
     Trending Across Townhall MediaLynchburg, VA Renews Second Amendment Sanctuary StatusLynchburg, among other communities, is sending … a message to Richmond that they're not buying the BS.May others follow their lead and renew their support for the Second Amendment … I'm one of the legions of Gen-Xers (and some millennials) who've enjoyed Van Der Beek's work since he first won our hearts as Dawson…
  24. NBC's Olympic Coverage Goes Downhill, Apologizes for Misgendering Female Skier in the Women's Division https://redstate.com/bradslager/2026/02/12/nbcs-olympic-cove…misgendering-a-female-skier-in-the-womens-division-n2199078
    Apparently, the First Amendment stops at Pennsylvania Avenue.So we now have a member of the curling team becoming a media darling,…
  25. The President's Religious Liberty Commission Is Minus a Member, and Good Riddance https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/02/11/the-presidents-re…commission-is-minus-a-member-and-its-her-own-fault-n2199057
    He believes that all Americans have a right to receive the great inheritance given to them by our founding fathers in the First Amendment…