Results for: First Amendment

If Joe Scarborough Is Telling the Truth, We Should All Be Deeply Concerned (VIDEO)
https://redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/11/30/joe-scarborough-telling-truth-deeply-concerned-video-n80504
– “If this is not what the 25th Amendment was drafted for,” he added, referring to the amendment that covers presidential succession … He’s been mishandled for years, first by a weak and ineffective Obama administration.…
Donald Trump Is Completely Right About the New York Times and They Are Helping Him Prove It
https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/11/30/donald-trump-completely-right-new-york-times-helping-prove-n80492
– The First Amendment doesn’t say we have to respect MSNBC or that Trump has to allow them into press gaggles. … So the whole “Trump is a danger to the First Amendment” has always struck me as a lazy and dishonest argument.…
RedState's Watercooler, 11/29 Open Thread: Barbecuing Some Snowflakes, Law Prof Style
https://redstate.com/diamondback/2017/11/29/redstates-watercooler-1129-open-thread-n80429
– . — then you will not be permitted to continue speaking until you have first identified which “ism” you are guilty of at that very … 🙂   This Week In History Sunday, 11/26: First national Thanksgiving, 1789; Carter & Carnarvon first to enter Tut’s tomb, 1922; … confirms Ford as VP, 1973 Tuesday, 11/28: First auto race in US, 1895; Grand Ole Opry’s first broadcast, 1925; Tehran Conference,…
RS Picks: Charities to Support on #GivingTuesday
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2017/11/28/rs-picks-charities-support-givingtuesday-n80345
– They also do work on First Amendment and due process issues, especially as these affect gun owners. … Backstoppers – Support families of fallen first responders.…
Trump's Plan for Supporting Roy Moore
https://redstate.com/patterico/2017/11/27/trumps-plan-supporting-roy-moore-n80295
– is a Schumer/Pelosi puppet who is WEAK on Crime, WEAK on the Border, Bad for our Military and our great Vets, Bad for our 2nd Amendment … Despite fever swampers raising allegations of bribery first advanced by discredited Twitter accounts, there has never been a convincing…
Trump Renews Feud With CNN
https://redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/11/25/trump-renews-feud-cnn-n80250
– https://t.co/A2qobamywz — Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) November 25, 2017 Inside the US, CNN’s reporting is protected by the FirstAmendment and the courts.…
No, We Don't Need More Women in Congress
https://redstate.com/kimberly_ross/2017/11/25/dont-need-more-women-in-congress-n80233
– It's obviously time for a 28th Amendment to the Constitution: "Until we can figure out what the hell is going on, only Americans of … “We should have a constitutional amendment that for the next 2 years only women should be elected to Congress” – @BillKristol w/ @kasie … And Kristol’s suggestion is not the first I’ve seen.…
RedState's Watercooler, 11/22 Open Thread: Thanksgiving Musings
https://redstate.com/diamondback/2017/11/22/redstates-watercooler-1122-open-thread-thanksgiving-musings-n80150
– Just one simple question I’d like to invite you all to ponder whether you post an answer here or not, and I’ll go first: What are YOU … This Week In History Sunday, 11/19: Jay’s Treaty signed, 1794; Gettysburg Address, 1863; National Review‘s first issue published, … 1955 Monday, 11/20: New Jersey (oh, the irony) first state to ratify Bill of Rights, 1789; Marines land on Tarawa, 1943; Windows 1.0…
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…
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