Results for: First Amendment

Lessons From the Night
https://redstate.com/erick/2014/11/05/lessons-from-the-night-n51018
First, two years in a row many pollsters got it wrong. … But the pro-life Amendment 1 won in Tennessee. … Meanwhile, the GOP is sending the first black female Republican to Congress with Mia Love.…
Why I Voted Yes On Question 1 (NY)
https://redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2014/11/04/voted-yes-question-1-ny-n51006
– Here’s Question 1, the purpose of which is to create a commission to do redistricting : The proposed amendment to sections 4 and … Shall the proposed amendment be approved?” … If the legislators don’t like the first two tries, they can draw the districts themselves.…
In Tennessee, Vote Yes on 1
https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2014/11/03/tennessee-vote-yes-1-n50975
– The first and most important of these is Amendment 1. … The Tennessee Supreme Court’s reasoning is facially erroneous on this count, and Amendment 1 seeks to undo that. … Amendment 1 will not prohibit a single abortion from occurring in Tennessee.…
Nobody at Vox.com Has Read The Fourteenth Amendment
https://redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2014/11/11/nobody-vox-com-read-fourteenth-amendment-n51085
– neither the author, Vox Executive Editor Matthew Yglesias, nor anybody else in the site’s editorial chain has read the Fourteenth Amendment … Now first of all, “requiring…from holding”? … Anyone who has read Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment can tell you the answer, because it is right there in black and white:…
The Vine
https://redstate.com/breeanneh/2014/11/10/vine-26-n51072
– Now, in a last ditch effort to push their agenda on Tennesseans, pro-aborts have filed suit to take down Amendment 1 “claiming that … As Yes on 1 explains, considering the amendment enjoys “a margin of 19,876 votes above the number needed for approval,” the lawsuit … In fact, the center, located in Bryan/College Station, Texas was the location of the very first 40 Days for Life campaign ten years…
Facebook to Censor "Fake News" From Your Feed
https://redstate.com/mickeywhite2/2016/12/15/facebook-censor-fake-news-feed-n65090
– This is the first time Facebook has given third parties special placement in the News Feed, which is the biggest single referrer of … This isn’t a first amendment problem, but it does draw into question Facebook’s role in purveying news and now curating it for their … Stay tuned… this is just the first shot over the bow.…
Shocker: Government Bureaucrats Don't Understand Business or Economics
https://redstate.com/setonmotley/2016/12/15/shocker-government-bureaucrats-dont-understand-business-economics-n65084
– He spent more than a year trying to prosecute ExxonMobil for engaging in First Amendment-protected speech.…
That’s All Folks: Hamilton Electors Second Lawsuit Dismissed this Week
https://redstate.com/prevaila/2016/12/15/thats-folks-hamilton-electors-second-lawsuit-dismissed-week-n65055
– lindsaycohen) December 14, 2016 Judge James Robart was not impressed and rejected the suits basis that the elector’s vote was a FirstAmendment issue.…
Common Sense and the Environment Won (Mostly) on Election Day
https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2016/12/13/common-sense-environment-won-mostly-election-day-n65002
– Both measures, in the words of Kansas’ amendment, guaranteed, “The people have the right to hunt, fish and trap … subject to reasonable … Indiana’s amendment, which passed with support from 78 percent of voters (compared to just 19 percent who opposed), guaranteed the … In 2015, the legislature passed a constitutional amendment adding trapping to Montana’s previously enacted constitutional provision…
Facebook Fake News Hysteria Is Just Censorship And Rent-Seeking In Disguise
https://redstate.com/streiff/2016/12/11/facebook-fake-news-hysteria-just-censorship-rent-seeking-disguise-n64898
– At first glance the concern about “fake news” seems plausible. … But one is forced to ask, how do we reconcile living in a society blessed with the First Amendment and equally blessed with open channels … First, they are relentlessly left-leaning.…
New York State's Being Sued Over its Stun Gun Ban
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2016/12/09/new-york-state-latest-n64865
– New York State is the latest jurisdiction to be sued in federal court on Second Amendment grounds over its stun gun ban. … Brandon Combs, president of the Coalition and chairman of the Foundation, stated: “The Second Amendment absolutely protects the right … Attorney Stephen Duvernay of Sacramento and Eugene Volokh, a UCLA law professor who has written and taught extensively about the First
Fake News Complaints by Big Media Are Fake
https://redstate.com/patterico/2016/12/08/fake-news-complaints-big-media-fake-n64780
First, such websites frequently produce meaningless statistics, such as trying to measure the percentage of a candidate’s statements … Fact-checkers have, for example, insisted that it was wrong to say Hillary Clinton wanted to get rid of the 2nd Amendment.…
WaterCooler 12/08/16; Public Reaction To Cabinet Picks; Religious Freedom And First Amendment Take A Hit; UK Parliament Overwhelmingly Supports Brexit
https://redstate.com/joliphant/2016/12/08/watercooler-120816…take-hit-uk-parliament-overwhelmingly-supports-brexit-n64818
– Why democracy is such a terrifying form of government. If they knew a little less they could be network news anchors as things stand I think they are only eligible to be university professors. State Of Illinois Forcing Christian Owned Bed And Breakfast To Host Gay Weddings...
NY Times Editorial Calling To Abolish The Electoral College Is Historically Inaccurate Garbage
https://redstate.com/jaycaruso/2016/12/21/ny-times-editorial-calling-to-abolish-electoral-college-is-garbage-n65283
First, at the time constitutional convention, only five of the thirteen states had wholly or partially abolished slavery by law (Massachusetts … pointing to slavery as a means of attempting to upend everything they hate in the constitution (the electoral college, the second amendment
Excuse Number Eleventy Billion Why Hillary Lost: Voter ID Laws
https://redstate.com/jaycaruso/2016/12/19/excuse-number-eleventy-billion-hillary-lost-voter-id-laws-n65206
– Instead, for the first time in 56 years, she did not cast a ballot. “Lord, have mercy,” she said. “What happened to voting?” … Requiring payment for voter identification is considered a poll tax and runs afoul of the 24th amendment to the Constitution.…
BREAKING. Trump Taps Mick Mulvaney To Be Director Of OMB
https://redstate.com/streiff/2016/12/17/breaking-trump-taps-mick-mulvaney-director-omb-n65158
– Mulvaney is also an advocate of a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. … Mulvaney has spent the past few years learning Spanish … One of his first battles is going to be with they guy who just appointed him.…
Hoax or A Cry For Help? Yasmin Sewied and "Honor" Crimes
https://redstate.com/mickeywhite2/2016/12/16/hoax-cry-help-yasmin-seweid-honor-crimes-n65127
– This isn’t a free speech issue, the first amendment ends when it results in physical harm to another person who can’t defend themselves…
RedState's WaterCooler 12/16/2016 - Open Thread - Free Speech for all?; Judge blocks TX respect for life rule
https://redstate.com/earhartam/2016/12/16/redstates-watercoo…thread-free-speech-judge-blocks-tx-respect-life-rule-n65173
– The Right has learned a few things about the first amendment from its far-Left brethren. … Truman cited “Communist Imperialism” for the alarm drawing us into the first military action between Cold War countries.…
RedState's WaterCooler! Tuesday, 1/3/2017 - Open Thread - Strange Fruit; The Pope; January Calendar
https://redstate.com/earhartam/2017/01/03/redstates-watercoo…32017-open-thread-strange-fruit-pope-january-calendar-n65689
– January 5: Senator John McCain to hold first hearing on Russia’s election-year hacking. … The court will decide whether the PTO is violating a First Amendment right to free speech.…
Trump's First 100 Days will Reveal Whether the Force can be Awakened or Resistance is Futile
https://redstate.com/california_yankee/2017/01/03/trumps-fir…l-reveal-whether-force-can-awakened-resistance-futile-n65659
– ground running to accomplish things Trump campaigned on and set out in Trump’s Contract With the American Voter — his plan for the first … According to Trump’s plan, on the first day of his presidency Trump’s Administration will immediately pursue the following six measures … to clean up the corruption and special interest collusion in Washington, DC: FIRST, propose a Constitutional Amendment to impose…
No, California Did Not Legalize Child Prostitution
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2016/12/31/no-california-not-legalize-child-prostitution-n65597
– If you just take the first sentence of paragraph 2, it looks like it’s A-OK for minors to engage in prostitution – or at least that … And, we have more horrible laws to deal with in California in 2017, including the ones stripping Second Amendment rights from the people…
GOP Proposes Fines for Temper Tantrums Like Last June's Democrat 'Sit-in' on the House Floor
https://redstate.com/jimjamitis/2016/12/28/gop-proposes-fine…per-tantrums-like-last-junes-democrat-sit-house-floor-n65504
– proposed policy, which would have to be approved by the full House when they return in January, would fine a member $500 for the first … That sounds like a good idea at first blush but just being on a watch list doesn’t mean someone is a terrorist. … And that pesky Second Amendment to the Constitution. They so often forget about that one.…
Report: Donald Trump Could Sue Buzzfeed for Releasing Dossier
https://redstate.com/mickeywhite2/2017/01/13/report-donald-trump-sue-buzzfeed-releasing-dossier-n66148
– had serious doubts; as to its truth, it might not have the benefit of the constitutional protections of the actual malice rule,” FirstAmendment attorney Floyd Abrams explained to LawNewz.com.…
Company That Bought Aborted Baby Body Parts Drops Suit Against the Center for Medical Progress
https://redstate.com/prevaila/2017/01/12/company-bought-abor…ed-baby-body-parts-drops-suit-center-medical-progress-n66066
– “StemExpress was the first of Planned Parenthood’s accomplices to file a retaliatory lawsuit against citizen journalists and the first … to seek an unconstitutional prior restraint on our First Amendment rights to speak and publish,” notes CMP Project Lead David Daleiden…
Watercooler 1-11 Open Thread: Gun Rights Roundup
https://redstate.com/diamondback/2017/01/11/watercooler-1-11-open-thread-gun-rights-roundup-n66051
– Maybe–the Congresional Second Amendment Caucus is back, and leader Thomas Massie’s Safe Students Act, HR34 would roll back the controversial … This Week In History Sunday, 1/8: First State of the Union address, 1790; Battle of New Orleans, 1815; Crazy Horse’s last battle, … Aero Precision giveaways give me one entry each for the first ten people who use my referral link.…
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