Results for First Amendment

  1. The Liar, The Witch, and The Wardrobe: Five Lies about the Debt Limit told Over the Weekend by a Fraud, a Harpie, and an "Empty Suit” https://redstate.com/mikehammond/2011/07/31/the-liar-the-wit…ver-the-weekend-by-a-fraud-a-harpie-and-an-empty-suit-n39886
    And I bet, after the first time little Sasha gets groped at the airport, TSA procedures will become a lot more “freedom-friendly.” … LIE #3: BOEHNER 7.0 WILL PROMISE “ACTION ON [OUR] BELOVED [SIC] BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT” There will be two loopholes: The mandate … will apparently be ambiguous about the version of the balanced budget amendment to be considered –- leaving open a proposal allowing…
  2. The FTC’s Internet Kill Switch https://redstate.com/marshablackburn/2011/08/18/the-ftcs-internet-kill-switch-n40106
    creative economy, limit our ability to access useful information online, harm competition and innovation, and test the limits of the First … Amendment.…
  3. Time Warner "Accidentally" Gives Free Air Time to Same-Sex Marriage Proponents https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2011/08/16/time-warner-acci…y-gives-free-air-time-to-same-sex-marriage-proponents-n40078
    the most dimwitted and politically unaware person in the universe would have recognized these ads for exactly what they were at a first … made if the Club for Growth produced a series of commercials starring Adam Baldwin pushing for the passage of the Balanced Budget Amendment…
  4. Heritage Action's Legislative Scorecard https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2011/08/25/heritage-actions-legislative-scorecard-n40185
    Well, the first comprehensive conservative report card of Congress is out, and we can now determine which members of the “Tea Party … In just the first seven months of the legislative session, they scored 30 votes in the House and 19 in the Senate, many of which dealt … First, the Senate is more decentralized, making it easier for an individual member to oppose leadership. …
  5. Morning Briefing for August 25, 2011 https://redstate.com/erick/2011/08/25/morning-briefing-for-august-25-2011-n40176
    ”: “Rick Perry’s campaign is now distancing him from another controversial claim in his book: That we should repeal the 16th Amendment … CBO is predicting GDP growth of 2.3% this year, even though it has only grown by 0.8% for the first half of the year. … I love my bosses and my employer and the owner and was happy to accommodate their very first request in my five years of employment…
  6. Rick Perry For President, Y'All https://redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2011/08/22/rick-perry-for-president-yall-n40138
    Even some of his more eccentric-sounding ideas, like his criticism of the Sixteenth Amendment, are grounded in his experience balancing … racial superiority for its native people), and became independent by seceding from Mexico – to Texans, independence and secession are first…
  7. What is Karl Rove's Plan for Social Security? https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2011/09/07/what-is-karl-roves-plan-for-social-security-n40313
    The only reason why it passed constitutional muster without the requirement of an amendment was FDR’s hardball tactics with … Or, instead of empowering government bureaucrats with even more of our money – the same bureaucrats who mismanaged it in the first … Karl Rove wants to know what a 10th amendment solution would look like vis-à-vis Social Security. …
  8. Proposed Questions for the GOP Debate: Time for Specifics https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2011/09/06/proposed-questions-for-the-gop-debate-time-for-specifics-n40297
    Do you think we should transform our first-to-invent system into a first-to-file system?  Is this a jobs bill? … Do you believe that the intent of the 14th amendment was to grant citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants?  … –10th Amendment:  There has been a newfound alacrity for the 10th Amendment, which states that “The powers not delegated to the United…
  9. Michele Bachmann's Constitutional Ignorance https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2011/09/13/michele-bachmanns-constitutional-ignorance-n40382
    According to the Tenth Amendment and centuries of constitutional precedent, states governments have inherent powers, subject only to … What that means – as any first year law student or person of ordinary common sense can tell you – is that when asking whether a State…
  10. A True American Hero - Marcus Flagg https://redstate.com/brian_d/2011/09/11/a-true-american-hero-marcus-flagg-n40363
    Currently, I am a United Parcel Service Boeing 757/767 First Officer flying domestically and internationally. … My first reaction was to call my father, also a U.S. … On September 6, 2002, the Senate voted overwhelmingly to allow airline pilots to carry guns on an amendment to the legislation that…
  11. Democrats Claiming to Care About 'Democracy' Are Lying Liars Who Can't Stop Lying https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/12/20/democrats-claiming-to…about-democracy-are-lying-liars-who-cant-stop-lying-n2167786
    voted to remove former President Donald Trump from the state's 2024 GOP presidential primary ballot using Section 3 of the 14th Amendment … This marks the first time in history that this provision has been leveraged in an effort to prevent a presidential candidate from seeking … The court put its ruling on hold until Jan. 4, so Trump can first seek review from the Supreme Court.…
  12. Joe Biden Delivers Tyrannical Response After Trump Is Removed From the Ballot https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/12/20/joe-biden-delivers-t…cal-response-to-trump-being-removed-from-the-ballot-n2167795
    ruled that the former president had committed "insurrection" regarding January 6th and was thereby disqualified under the 14th Amendment … Think about how ironic just the first part of Biden's statement is.…
  13. Biden Makes Very Bad Comment About Colorado Ruling on Trump, Gets Confused Over Hostages Question https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/12/20/biden-insurrection-and-hostages-remarks-n2167780
    Jonathan Turley Rips Apart the Colorado Decision Booting Trump Off the Ballot First, Biden responded with the right thing, that he … Now, whether the 14th Amendment applies, we'll let the Court make that decision. But he certainly supported an insurrection.…
  14. Emerson College Poll: Trump Maintains Lead in Iowa, Haley and DeSantis Essentially Tied for Second https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/12/20/emerson-college-po…iowa-haley-and-desantis-essentially-tied-for-second-n2167768
    With not quite four weeks to go until the Iowa caucuses, that first-in-the-nation presidential election indicator, former President … At first glance, it would appear that Trump and DeSantis are both losing some support at the margins to Haley. … Emerson survey was conducted from December 15th to the 17th, before the Colorado Supreme Court issued its ruling using a weak 14th Amendment…
  15. Jonathan Turley Rips Apart the Colorado Decision Booting Trump Off the Ballot https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/12/20/jonathan-turley-r…the-colorado-decision-booting-trump-off-the-ballot-n2167764
    The folks trying to push the 14th Amendment agenda to get former President Donald Trump booted off ballots finally met with success … The purpose of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment — the “disqualification clause” — was to bar Confederates.   … The only narrow part of the opinion came with the interpretation of the First Amendment, where the four justices dismissed the free-speech…
  16. Democrats and the Colorado Supreme Court Set a Dangerous Precedent https://redstate.com/joesquire/2023/12/20/democrats-and-the-colorado-supreme-court-set-a-dangerous-precedent-n2167763
    We have very clear documentation on the purpose of the amendment.  The circumstances of today are a lot murkier. … Amendment protects Trump’s speech and wasn’t implicitly repealed in that regard by the 14th Amendment, that the Republican Party has … a First Amendment right of association to put an ineligible candidate on its primary ballot, and even that Trump may have a legal…
  17. WATCH: Even Chris Christie Is Casting the Stink Eye on Court Keeping Trump off Ballot https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/12/19/watch-even-chris…ing-the-stink-eye-on-court-keeping-trump-off-ballot-n2167756
    But even Christie found the decision by the Colorado Supreme Court booting Trump off the primary ballot under the 14th Amendment for … States by the voters of this country. pic.twitter.com/77ChhLFkFz — Chris Christie (@GovChristie) December 20, 2023 Christie noted first … As my colleague Bob Hoge reported, Vivek Ramaswamy went a step further and showed class by being the first out with a statement, saying…
  18. Hot Takes: GOP Politicos Unload After Colorado Supreme Court Primary Ballot Ruling on Donald Trump https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2023/12/19/hot-takes-on…lorado-supreme-courts-ballot-ruling-on-donald-trump-n2167753
    that 2024 GOP presidential candidate and former POTUS Donald Trump should be removed from the Republican primary ballot on 14th Amendment … the election away from the people of Colorado and robbed them of their right to vote for President Trump.This is an unprecedented First … amendment violation that must be struck down by the SCOTUS.This can not be allowed to stand. — Rep.…
  19. BREAKING: Colorado Supreme Court Votes to Boot Trump Off the Ballot Using the 14th Amendment https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/12/19/breaking-colorado-supr…boot-trump-off-the-ballot-using-the-14th-amendment-n2167749
    Donald Trump should be removed from the state’s presidential primary ballot for the 2024 election based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment … The court put its ruling on hold until Jan. 4, so Trump can first seek review from the Supreme Court. … In other states, similar efforts to remove Trump using the 14th Amendment have been shot down.…
  20. Self-Avowed Christian Nationalist Romps to 11-Point Win in Oklahoma Special State Senate Election https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/12/17/self-avowed-christia…point-win-in-oklahoma-special-state-senate-election-n2167661
    The First Amendment prohibition on the establishment of religion only applied to the federal government, with several states maintaining … The purpose of the First Amendment was to prevent any Christian denomination — the target was explicitly the Anglican Church because … When he ran for first vice president of the SBC, SBC President Ray Barber lambasted him for his views.…
  21. California Ski Resort to Place Statue of Virgin Mary Atop Butte - Usual Suspects Outraged https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/12/17/california-ski-res…place-statue-of-virgin-mary-usual-suspects-outraged-n2167659
    Oh, sure, the people who are complaining have First Amendment rights as well and are free to whinge about the proposed statue. … Here's the thing a lot of folks have a hard time understanding: The First Amendment applies to everyone. … Speaking as a guy with no dog in this religious fight but also as a staunch First Amendment advocate, I hope the Mt.…
  22. Destroying the Satanist Altar in Iowa's State Capitol Was a Righteous and Virtuous Response to Evil https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/12/17/destroying-the-satan…pitol-was-a-righteous-and-virtuous-response-to-evil-n2167654
    I am guided by the First Amendment of the US Constitution. … I'm not even sure that Satanism qualifies as a religion under the First Amendment.  … There is no binding precedent stating that anti-blasphemy laws violate the First Amendment.…
  23. Jonathan Turley Has a Few Things to Say About Eric Swalwell Helping Hunter Biden Blow Off Subpoena https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/12/16/jonathan-turley-h…ric-swalwell-helping-hunter-biden-blow-off-subpoena-n2167630
    He said: As first reported by the Washington Examiner, Swalwell used his official position to reserve the space for the press conference … Indeed, in 2021 Swalwell sponsored a resolution exploring whether dozens of Republican colleagues could be expelled under the 14th Amendment…
  24. Supreme Court Allows Illinois' Semi-Automatic Weapons Ban to Stand, but the Fight Isn't Over Yet https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/12/15/supreme-court-allows-i…ic-weapons-ban-to-stand-but-the-fight-isnt-over-yet-n2167596
    Republican, and like-minded gun-owners who brought the lawsuit had earlier waived their claims that the law infringes on the Second Amendment … The Second Amendment claim is alive, however, in several federal lawsuits filed in southern Illinois, later consolidated and awaiting … When Illinois first passed the ban, over half of the state’s sheriffs indicated that they would refuse to enforce it, meaning that…
  25. That Controversial Satan Statue in the Iowa Capitol Building Just Got Beheaded https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/12/14/the-controversial-sa…atue-in-the-iowa-capitol-building-has-been-beheaded-n2167566
    but none of the founders would have considered government sanction of Satanic altars inside Capitol buildings as protected by the First … Amendment. … Better yet, they would have never allowed it to be put up in the first place.…