Results for: First Amendment

Atlanta fire chief canned for politically incorrect LGBT book gets day in court
https://redstate.com/stridentconservative/2017/11/22/atlanta…canned-politically-incorrect-lgbt-book-gets-day-court-n80133
– federal court where he filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city of Atlanta for religious discrimination and denying him his First … , Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights.…
No, Media, #FakeNews Is Not Something Donald Trump Just Made Up
https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/12/10/no-media-fakenews-not-something-donald-trump-just-made-n81048
– TheSecondMostSlappableFaceOnTheInternetTM The president calling for a journalist to be fired seems like a public threat to the FirstAmendment. https://t.co/Vx4csNtIP4 — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 9, 2017 But we have to ask, why did Weigel feel…
SCOTUS Should Recognize Religious Beliefs Don't Equal Bigotry
https://redstate.com/joshkimbrell/2017/12/09/scotus-recognize-religious-beliefs-dont-equal-bigotry-n81016
– The Supreme Court heard oral arguments this past week in a case that may well decide the fate of the First Amendment in America.…
You Don't Have To Back Roy Moore in Alabama But You Also Don't Have To Support Doug Jones
https://redstate.com/arbogast/2017/12/09/dont-back-roy-moore-alabama-also-dont-support-doug-jones-n81000
– from Moore’s fixation on women under the age of 18, his praising of Vladimir Putin and his reprehensible views on religion and the firstamendment, make him a God-awful choice for the Republican Party.…
Big Money Donors and Trump's Favor Fueled Project Veritas' Drive to Discredit the Media
https://redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/12/08/big-money-donors-t…ps-favor-fueled-project-veritas-drive-discredit-media-n80937
– O’Keefe’s relationship with the president began in 2013, when Trump first started considering a run and decided he should probably … As long as there are people willing to see the First Amendment and a free press as a bad thing, people like Trump and O’Keefe can benefit…
Trump Administration Is About to Gut Public Sector Labor Unions
https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/12/07/trump-administration-gut-public-sector-labor-unions-n80898
Amendment decisions by the Supreme Court. … But Janus argued that even requiring him to pay the more limited fee violates his First Amendment rights because issues related to … The justices did not reach the union-fees issue the first time they considered it, in the 2014 case Harris v.…
Yes, the Government Has to Get a Warrant for Digital ‘Papers’
https://redstate.com/setonmotley/2017/12/07/yes-government-get-warrant-digital-papers-n80879
– The Fourth Amendment of our sensational Constitution reads as follows: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses … What this means is: Government can’t invade your property or grab your stuff – without first securing a warrant. … The point of the Fourth Amendment – was to protect our stuff from government. Up until they obtained a warrant.…
RedState's Watercooler, 12/6 Open Thread: The Pilot and The Preacher; Steinle Supporters Strike Back?
https://redstate.com/diamondback/2017/12/06/redstates-waterc…pilot-and-the-preacher-steinle-supporters-strike-back-n80831
– published, 1881; first Burger King opens, 1954 Tuesday, 12/5: Knox begins transport of Ft. … Ticonderoga artillery, 1775; Polk confirms California gold, 1848; 21st Amendment ratified, 1933; Flight 19 vanishes, 1945 Wednesday … , 1904 Thursday, 12/7: Delaware first to ratify Constitution, 1787; Jesse James’s first robbery, 1869; “Day of Infamy,” 1941; final…
Here's How the Republican Tax Plan Is Going To Help You
https://redstate.com/joesquire/2017/12/04/heres-republican-tax-plan-going-help-n80669
– The first item which is a net good and which will benefit Americans (my favorite) is the expansion of the 529 college savings plan. … The Senate also voted to adopt my amendment to expand 529 College Savings Plans to include K-12 elementary and secondary school tuition … We seem to be getting to that, and that would be the first real leadership the GOP has shown since it took office.…
FBI Investigating Antifa Violent Criminal Activity
https://redstate.com/california_yankee/2017/12/02/fbi-investigating-antifa-violent-criminal-activity-n80621
– the investigations are based on threat — not of them are focused on “ideology, opinion, or rhetoric,” which could run afoul of the FirstAmendment and freedom of expression issues.…
SENATE TAX REFORM BILL PASSES
https://redstate.com/absentee/2017/12/02/senate-tax-reform-bill-passes-n80616
– And though it wasn’t pretty, and though not every amendment we desired made it, nor every we wanted defeated fell, the votes were there … This is the first tax reform bill to pass the Senate in 31 years. … For what is really the first time since the 2016 election, Republican Senators set out to do something and then did it.…
Child Tax Credits are Not "Social Engineering"
https://redstate.com/joshkimbrell/2017/12/17/child-tax-credits-not-social-engineering-n81466
– Families are forming later, and couples are having their first child in their 30s, which drives-down the overall birthrate as women … For this reason, I supported the Rubio-Lee Amendment to expand the child tax credit by $87 billion for working families. … Inclusion of the Rubio-Lee Amendment was not worth scuttling the entire tax reform package over, but including it would have made the…
Salon Shoots at Second Amendment but Kills American History by Mistake
https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/12/17/salon-shoots-second-amendment-kills-american-history-mistake-n81472
– Here is Madison’s first draft of the Second Amendment: “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, a well-armed … Thus, the Amendment as it now stands. … The gun crowd and their apparatchiks ignore, as well, the very reason the Second Amendment got into the Constitution in the first place…
The Tax Bill Failure of Trump and Why We Should Be Thankful
https://redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/12/16/tax-bill-failure-trump-thankful-n81435
– Thursday night, she ruled that the repeal of the Johnson Amendment did not qualify. … I’ve said repeatedly that the Johnson Amendment should be left alone. … It’s an amendment that never should have been made, in the first place.…
When 'Deregulation' - Is Actually More Government and a Constitutional Violation
https://redstate.com/setonmotley/2017/12/13/deregulation-actually-government-constitutional-violation-n81269
– On what Senator Paul was so eloquently expounding – is the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment. … In addition, the Fifth Amendment requires the government to pay ‘just compensation’ when taking property for public use. … I have for decades excoriated the government Post Office’s government-mandated monopoly on First Class mail.…
Defending Marriage & Religious Liberty: Where Is Texas?
https://redstate.com/erick/2015/05/15/defending-marriage-religious-liberty-where-is-texas-n52836
– Our first liberty is under assault.  … The law would get Texas closer to the spirit of the First Amendment – and you know what that law would look like?  … Or actually stand up for religious liberty as envisioned in the First Amendment (protect all Texans for exercising their closely held…
On H1B Visas: Scott Walker Will Fight For American Workers, Senators Cruz and Rubio Not So Much.
https://redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2015/05/22/h1b-visas-sc…will-fight-american-workers-senators-cruz-rubio-much-n52894
– Walker said Monday in an interview with Glenn Beck that the first priority in considering legal immigration policy should be the wages … Cruz offered the H-1B increase as an amendment in 2013 to the Senate’s comprehensive immigration bill. … Cruz’s amendment was defeated by the Senate’s Judiciary Committee, which approved an 180,000 H-1B cap increase in the comprehensive…
Rick Perry Climbs Back On The Horse
https://redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2015/06/09/rick-perry-climbs-back-horse-n53050
– The same thing happened to Michael Jordan the first couple of times he ran into Larry Bird and The Celtics in the NBA Playoffs. … Perry won’t get six title rings – there’s a Constitutional Amendment against that sort of thing.…
Tech at Night: Yes, we still need to defeat Net Neutrality
https://redstate.com/neil_stevens/2015/06/09/tech-night-yes-still-need-defeat-net-neutrality-n53049
– A really great and true argument against the President’s plan to regulate the Internet is that it violates the First Amendment.…
New Net Neutrality Order Is a Nadir for the First Amendment & Internet Freedom
https://redstate.com/fredcampbell/2015/06/08/new-net-neutrality-order-nadir-first-amendment-internet-freedom-n53045
– The FCC’s conclusion is an unprecedented nadir for the First Amendment and Internet freedom. … The First Amendment protects both publication and dissemination of mass media communications. … that ISPs don’t have any First Amendment right to control their transmissions either.…
Forcing Healthcare Providers to Violate Conscience
https://redstate.com/kimberly_ross/2015/06/08/forcing-healthcare-providers-violate-conscience-il-n53039
– The bill’s first reading was in February of this year, and currently, a second extension on May 31 set a deadline of June 30, 2015 … Freedom of Religion, the first freedom enshrined in the First Amendment, and in the Illinois Constitution, prohibits the government…
Could the Supreme Court Create a Titanic Shift in Electoral Politics?
https://redstate.com/davenj1/2015/06/05/changing-electoral-dynamics-n53031
– It evolves from the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. … state has about 521,000 VEP compared to the compact 40th District in Los Anegles which has a VEP of 262,000- or half that of the First
Open Letter to a Liberal Professor
https://redstate.com/irishfurbush/2015/06/04/open-letter-liberal-professor-n53023
First let me share a little back-story. … After introductions our first assignment was to answer a question regarding freedom in America, including how and to whom it should … Furthermore, the inclusion of the Article 5 Amendment process indicates that our Constitution’s framers were aware of the fact that…
Supreme Court Strikes Blow for Religious Freedom
https://redstate.com/ironchapman/2015/06/19/supreme-court-strikes-blow-religious-freedom-n53152
– Gilbert that it violated the Sign Code, Good News sued Gilbert and claimed that the Sign Code violated the Free Speech Clause of the FirstAmendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. … We have thus made clear that “‘[i]llicit legislative intent is not the sine qua non of a violation of the First Amendment,’” and a…
Meet Donald G. Kosin, Jr.
https://redstate.com/erick/2015/06/17/meet-donald-g-kosin-jr-n53139
– Kosin’s response to my tweet was this: But the important thing is that the right wing racist got to exercise his “2nd Amendment right … First, it is no one’s second amendment right to kill anyone. Mr. … that because too many of those in positions to talk about the mental health concerns would rather jump immediately to the second amendment
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