Results for First Amendment

  1. New Federal Lawsuit Challenges CA's "Large Capacity" Magazine Confiscation Scheme https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2017/04/28/new-federal-lawsu…enges-cas-large-capacity-magazine-confiscation-scheme-n71148
    However, and as alleged further below…the first two of these purported options are illusory, as they do not reflect viable means of … “Not only does the ban infringe on Second Amendment rights, but it is clearly now a taking of private property. … Becerra, is supported by The Calguns Foundation, Firearms Policy Coalition, Firearms Policy Foundation, and Second Amendment Foundation…
  2. Reasonable, Rational, Lawful AGs Stage an Intervention for NY’s Radical Schneiderman https://redstate.com/setonmotley/2017/04/25/reasonable-ratio…awful-ags-stage-intervention-nys-radical-schneiderman-n71002
    Which not only isn’t a crime – it’s a First Amendment-protected freedom-of-speech activity. … “The authors of the amicus believe the pursuit of Exxon violates the First Amendment of the U.S Constitution and constitutes an ‘unconstitutional … Oh – and these eleven AGs are not the first people to sue out-of-control Schneiderman. Anything else from the eleven AGs?…
  3. Mike Flynn Gets His Well Earned Senate Subpoena https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/05/10/mike-flynn-gets-well-earned-senate-subpoena-n71631
    . … This is the first time the Intelligence Committee has used its subpoena power since the joint inquiry into the terrorist attacks … of Sept. 11, 2001, and it’s the first time it has subpoenaed documents since the 1970s, a Senate historian told NBC News. … If he doesn’t lawyer up and wrap himself in a kevlar version of the Fifth Amendment, he’s a moron.…
  4. A Sad Goodbye to Our Friend and Colleague, Bob Owens https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2017/05/09/sad-goodbye-friend-colleague-bob-owens-n71557
    I first “met” Bob through Twitter when we were part of a group working on a project to offer weekend firearms training workshops for … I could always count on him to share his knowledge on Second Amendment, gun gear, and use of force topics – or to join me in mocking…
  5. EUREKA! If We Just Had Government-Run Facebook, All Would Be Well https://redstate.com/joesquire/2017/05/09/eureka-just-government-run-facebook-well-n71524
    That would be a violation of the First Amendment, would it not? … else posts from being seen by like-minded people, and on a website paid for by taxpayer money, this does become a discussion of the First … Amendment.…
  6. When Clarence Thomas Talks, People Should Listen https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2017/05/08/clarence-thomas-talks-people-listen-n71511
    honest: Given his tenure on the Supreme Court for the past 25+ years, I’d forgotten that Thomas started his legal career in Missouri, first … versus the structural protections contained within the Constitution itself – the separation of powers, the checks and balances, the amendment … In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government…
  7. Justin Amash Is Not Standing For Paul Ryan's Nonsense https://redstate.com/neil_stevens/2017/05/07/justin-amash-not-standing-paul-ryans-nonsense-n71472
    When Republican leaders first unveiled the American Health Care Act, a Democratic friend and colleague joked to me that the bill wasn … It is an amendment to the ACA that deliberately maintains Obamacare’s framework.…
  8. Was President Trump's Religious Liberty Order Worthless? Not in the Long Run. https://redstate.com/joshkimbrell/2017/05/07/president-trumps-religious-liberty-order-worthless-not-long-run-n71465
    liberty protections, section II states that the Administration is ordering the Treasury Department not to enforce the Johnson Amendment … The Johnson Amendment would have to be repealed by Congress, which Congress should do immediately, and section III recommends a “softening … I applaud the Trump Administration for taking a necessary first step toward religious liberty protections with the President’s order…
  9. Some Conservative Voices Underwhelmed By Trump's Religious Liberties Executive Order https://redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/05/07/conservative-voice…derwhelmed-trumps-religious-liberties-executive-order-n71466
    First, the bluster: At a Rose Garden ceremony Thursday, Trump declared that the “threat against the faith community is over.” … And the portion that addresses the Johnson Amendment? … “The answer to the Johnson Amendment… is to either repeal the statute or overturn it in court,” French wrote.…
  10. Legal Battle Ensues After School Punishes Students for 'Liking' Racist Social Media Posts https://redstate.com/jimjamitis/2017/05/05/legal-battle-ensu…ol-punishes-students-liking-racist-social-media-posts-n71432
    Schools have broad authority under federal law to limit speech at school that they consider disruptive, according to First Amendment…
  11. SCOTUS: Gerrymandering Is Fine; Except When Republicans Do It https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2017/05/24/scotus-gerrymandering-fine-except-republicans-n72302
    into why challenges have repeatedly been mounted regarding their boundaries:   The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment … When the Court takes up a voting district challenge such as this, it engages in a two-step analysis: First, voters challenging district…
  12. A Picture Says More Than a Thousand Words About CA Politician's Hypocrisy [VIDEO] https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2017/05/17/picture-says-thousand-words-ca-politicians-hypocrisy-video-n71992
    Noted Second Amendment…uh, supporter. … question for Reid on behalf of the people who couldn’t be there today because they were murdered – but had to call him a murderer first…
  13. Oh, By the Way, Trump Apparently Also Asked Comey to Lock Up Reporters https://redstate.com/joesquire/2017/05/17/oh-way-trump-apparently-also-asked-comey-lock-reporters-n71939
    Trump wants to silence reporters by locking them up, then all this talk about political correctness means nothing because it’s all a First … Amendment issue.…
  14. In Their Zeal to Have a Gotcha Moment, Fox News Blows It on Criticism of NY Times https://redstate.com/jaycaruso/2017/05/30/zeal-gotcha-moment-fox-news-blows-criticism-ny-times-n72535
    CNN and other mainstream outlets cover the Trump administration as opposed to the Obama administration is all the rage through the first … On Thursday, he credited Circa for being the first to obtain the documents related to the NSA story, and then said this about the amount … Privacy advocates have argued that the practice skirted or overstepped the Fourth Amendment.…
  15. Portland's Mayor Comes Up With a Great Way of Commemorating Friday's Murders https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/05/30/portland-mayor-shuts-down-free-speech-n72516
    “They have a First Amendment right to speak, but hate speech is not protected.” This is not how any of this works.…
  16. SCOTUS Overturns 9th Circuit 8-0 https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2017/05/30/scotus-overturns-9th-circuit-8-0-n72518
    The Court vacated and remanded the case after holding that the Fourth Amendment provides no basis for the Ninth Circuit’s “provocation … The case involved three Fourth Amendment claims by Angel Mendez and Jennifer Garcia: a warrantless entry claim; a knock-and-announce … challenge to the government obtaining historical cell-phone location records without a warrant, and a First Amendment challenge by…
  17. FISA Court: FBI Shows Institutional "Lack of Candor" in Oversight Reports https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/05/26/fbi-illegally-unmasked-us-citizens-and-shared-their-inform-n72377
    paint a picture of an FBI with a very cavalier attitude toward regulations governing how NSA material can be used and the Fourth Amendment … Just a few snippets: Illegal accessing of information The FBI’s very first compliance report in 2009 declared it had not found … issues and thus were “overstepping” the constitutional protections designed to ensure the bureau isn’t violating Americans’ 4th Amendment…
  18. High School Edits Donald Trump References from Yearbook https://redstate.com/bradslager/2017/06/13/high-school-edits-donald-trump-references-yearbook-n73161
    appeared in this space Friday afternoon, saying she was “investigating an allegation of censorship and the possible violation of First … Amendment rights in the high school yearbook this year.…
  19. Fake Democracy, Real Power Grabs: The Bureaucracy ‘Comment Periods’ https://redstate.com/setonmotley/2017/06/12/fake-democracy-real-power-grabs-bureaucracy-comment-periods-n73090
    On which We the People can exert influence – via our First Amendment right “to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.…
  20. One Year After Pulse, The 2nd Amendment Can Still Save Lives Regardless of Orientation https://redstate.com/joshkimbrell/2017/06/11/one-year-pulse…amendment-can-still-save-lives-regardless-orientation-n73073
    As we observe the anniversary of the Pulse night club attack, I believe that the answer is two-fold: affirm the 2nd Amendment rights … None of us condones hate against LGBT individuals, and we view the victims of the Pulse night club first as fallen fellow Americans … Affirming the 2nd Amendment, and condemning radical Islamic terrorism and eradicating it from the earth is good for all Americans,…
  21. Watercooler 6/7 Open Thread: The Contract Reassessed, June '17 Edition https://redstate.com/diamondback/2017/06/07/watercooler-67-open-thread-contract-reassessed-june-17-edition-n72907
    The Contract Assessed, June 2017 Edition Time for another look at Trump’s Contract With The American Voter, at the close of his first … visit to USSR, 1988 Tuesday, 5/30: Kansas-Nebraska Act takes effect, 1854; Ray Harroun wins first Indy 500, 1911; WWII and Korean … Aero Precision giveaways give me one bonus entry each for the first ten people who enter using my personal link.…
  22. Senator McCain is a Crony’s Best Friend https://redstate.com/setonmotley/2017/06/21/senator-john-mccain-cronys-best-friend-n73534
    McCain was the lead (and just about only) Republican in the anti-First Amendment “campaign finance reform” movement. … Oh – and this isn’t the first time McCain tried to help Musk in just this fashion. … Flashback to May 2016: Behold Senator John McCain’s Terrible Military Amendment: “Sen.…
  23. The WaPo and NYT Are Shocked to Discover Free Speech Actually Means Just That https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/06/20/wapo-nyt-struggle-with-scotus-speech-case-n73494
    The First Amendment does not entrust that power to the government’s benevolence. … The First Amendment bars the government from discriminating among speakers based on their viewpoints. … Two private enterprises that depend upon the First Amendment in order to function were perfectly willing to have that right stripped…
  24. In Unanimous Decision, SCOTUS Puts the Boot on the Perpetually Offended https://redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/06/19/unanimous-decision-scotus-puts-boot-perpetually-offended-n73427
    District Court, claiming the trademark board was penalizing them, in violation of their First Amendment rights. … Justices, though, said that violated the First Amendment.…
  25. New Gallup Poll: Can Our Government Protect Us From Terrorist Attacks? https://redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/06/19/new-gallup-poll-can-government-protect-us-terrorist-attacks-n73407
    I’m just going to go ahead and toss in there that our Second Amendment gives us a certain layer of protection, as well, but that’s … The new score is the first Gallup poll to measure American’s faith in the federal government’s ability to protect them from such attacks…