Results for: First Amendment
Will These New Gun Laws Stand up After the Bruen Decision?
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Supreme Court ruling that expanded Second Amendment rights.
Before the ink was even dry on Gov. … These laws are supposedly aimed at addressing the rising rate of gun violence, but opponents argue that they infringe on Second Amendment … The first of these new laws raises the minimum age for buying firearms from 18 to 21.…
Nearly 700 Professors Protest a Bill Requiring Students to Study the Constitution
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Led by people apparently opposed to equity and made uncomfortable by the concept of inclusion, these anti-DEI efforts violate the First … Amendment and interfere with the unfettered pursuit of truth and enlightenment.…
Elon Musk Drops the Hammer on the 'Woke Mind Virus' in Interview with Bill Maher
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First of all what is the woke mind virus?" … He said that the left’s desire to censor seemed “crazy.” ” We need to be extremely concerned about anything that “undermines the First … Amendment,” Elon exclaimed.…
Daytime Talk Show Legend and Former Mayor Jerry Springer, Dead at 79
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effort to lower the voting age in Ohio, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of ratification of the 26th Amendment … Then, there was the first controversy of Springer’s career when, it’s rumored, he got caught paying for a prostitute because he wrote … But he was a staunch advocate of the First Amendment, and allowed them to march.…
WATCH: Sen. Kennedy Exposes Dems in Brilliant Grilling of Abortion Witness
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“Let me clarify what the 14th amendment says in the first sentence,” Goodwin said, asking Kennedy, “Do you support our Constitution…
Trans Lawmaker Sets Internet Ablaze With Bill to Remove Anti-Pedophile Language From MN Human Rights Act
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The language never should have been included in the statutory definition in the first place. … “House Republicans will be presenting an amendment today to clarify that pedophilia is absolutely not a protected class under the Human…
Déjà Vu? Fulton County DA Set to Announce Criminal Charges Against Trump and Associates
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, Willis said, “We have seen in recent years that some may go outside of public expressions of opinion that are protected by the First … Amendment to engage in acts of violence that will endanger the safety of those we are sworn to protect.…
Orwellian Progressive Push for Government Crackdown on News Outlets: Is Free Speech at Risk?
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Despite the obvious First Amendment issues, these people seem to believe they can force networks to align with their orthodoxy. … She is not the first high-profile progressive to suggest such a thing.…
WATCH: Renowned Criminologist Sunny Hostin Reveals Underlying Cause of 'Gun Violence' - 'White Men'
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Toss in “gun violence” and anything connected to Second Amendment rights, and we’re talking, immediately or sooner. … While Hostin’s first comment (relative to the number of firearms in the U.S. and the population percentage of gun owners) was largely … Before we hit the silly “radicalized by Fox News” nonsense — particularly as it relates to “gun violence” — let’s first get to the…
Tim Robbins Is Still Battling That Chill Wind
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And both of us last week were told that both we and the First Amendment were not welcome at the Baseball Hall of Fame. … though despite my reservations regarding the Iraq War, by November 2004, I’d determined that Bush was the better option and cast my first…
The Fox Factor: Should Government Regulate News Networks?
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This is not the first time someone like Weismann has suggested using the government to punish media outlets that do not align with … Taking action against Fox News would be a shameless violation of the First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and freedom of the…
Of Course Democrats Are Threatening to Imprison Matt Taibbi Over a Typo
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First and foremost, it constitutes an attack on press freedom and the principles of the First Amendment, which guarantees the right…
Americans Stock up on Guns: 60 Million Firearms Sold in 2 Years During COVID-19 Pandemic
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households purchased guns during the pandemic, resulting in more than 15 million Americans keeping firearms in their homes for the first … The increase in gun ownership during the pandemic highlights the exercise of Second Amendment rights by millions of Americans. … As mentioned earlier, first-time gun buyers during the pandemic were more likely to be women, people of color, and renters.…
Dick Durbin Deflates Left’s ‘Subpoena Clarence Thomas’ Balloon as Ted Cruz Nails What’s Really Going On
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backroom plan to get rid of Feinstein, but also by highlighting the real reasons Democrats are targeting Clarence Thomas in the first … a Supreme Court justice who is the leading conservative on the court, the leading defender of religious liberty and the Second Amendment…
Teacher Who Perpetrated 'Empty Shelves' Hoax to Attack DeSantis Gets His Just Deserts
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Of course, advocacy groups are treating Covey as a victim, arguing his First Amendment rights were violated. … Amendment rights. … You do not have a First Amendment right to take video at work in order to mislead and lie about your employer (in this case, partially…
Judge's Take-Down of Kathy Hochul's 'Hate Speech' Law Is Important and Satisfying
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According to Judge Carter (Breitbart), that was a no-go given the protections afforded by the First Amendment. … I think we can speculate on that given the breakneck pace at which liberals have shifted away from respect for the First Amendment. … In other words, this law sure seemed like a giant first step in outright criminalizing speech, by proxy at first with an eye toward…
Second Amendment Sanctuary Movement Takes a Serious Blow, but It Isn’t Over Yet
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But it recently took what might be significant defeat after an activist judge in Oregon overturned a Second Amendment sanctuary measure … This whacko judge is saying that those who value the Second Amendment are motivated by racism. … Fox News noted that this ruling is the first legal defeat for the Second Amendment sanctuary movement.…
Federal Judge Slaps Down New York Governor’s Effort to Attack Free Speech on Social Media
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be a good idea to get in touch with her inner authoritarian and try to force online platforms to police speech since that pesky First … Amendment disallows the government to engage in such an undertaking. … Amendment.…
A Good Start: Microsoft Has Removed Conservative Sites From Its Advertising Blacklist
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However, it’s the inclusion of State Department dollars that takes this from just corporate scandal to an actual First Amendment issue…
FBI Rescinds 'Intelligence Report' Linking Traditionalist Catholics With Violence but That Isn't Enough
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constitutional rights of all Americans and will never conduct investigative activities or open an investigation based solely on First … Amendment protected activity.”…
Hyperpartisanship Empowers Our Government to Embrace Corruption
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House Republicans’ subcommittee to investigate the weaponization of the Justice Department held its first hearing on Thursday. … “Although FBI employees have their first amendment rights, they are not at the liberty to allow their personal political views or preferences … Stacey Plaskett (D-VI), the top-ranking Democrat on the panel, excoriated Republicans for forming the subcommittee in the first place…
Free Speech Also Applies to Our Enemies
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has figured prominently in this debate, and now there are troubling indications that those who claim to value the spirit of the First … Amendment have become willing to dabble in their own form of censorship. … In the letter, FIRE and NCAC reminded the university that it is a public entity that is subject to the protections of the First Amendment…
RedState Celebrates Black History Month: African Americans' Relationship With Guns With Rhonda Mary
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Indeed, these people feared the idea of blacks owning weapons so much that the first gun control laws were specifically intended to … Many, like myself, became first-time gun owners. … though Democrats seek to disarm the public – especially in black communities, people still understand the importance of the Second Amendment…
What Happens When Pro-Abortion Authoritarians Use the Government to Punish Their Political Opposition?
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punish people who disagree with them on abortion, they are doing it to send a chilling message to other pro-lifers who exercise their First … Amendment rights: Dissent will be punished harshly, Eighth Amendment be damned.…
If Unions Are So Popular, How Come No One Wants to Be in One?
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In 1983, the first year where comparable union data are available, the union membership rate was 20.1 percent and there were 17.7 million … AFSCME, affirmed that mandatory union participation in the public sector amounted to a violation of workers’ First Amendment rights…