Jun 5, 2015 – 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…

Jun 4, 2015 – 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…

Jun 19, 2015 – Gilbert that it violated the Sign Code, Good News sued Gilbert and claimed that the Sign Code violated the Free Speech Clause of the First … Amendment 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…

Jun 17, 2015 – 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…

Jun 29, 2015 – Because, as it happens, I stand strongly with them in the next battle – which is to say, respecting the clear First Amendment Free … But to do that, we have to keep them out of the end zone first.…

Jun 29, 2015 – If gay marriage is a fundamental right under the equal protection clause, it is going to trump a lot of the first amendment. … Let me tell you what is going to happen first. Silence.…

Jun 27, 2015 – The First Amendment ensures that religious organizations and persons are given proper protection as they seek to teach the principles … First and foremost, this is what lawyers refer to as “dicta.” … The First Amendment guarantees, however, the freedom to “exercise” religion. Ominously, that is not a word the majority uses.…

Jun 26, 2015 – First and foremost, judicial opinions are notoriously terrible guideposts for setting intelligible policy, especially as compared to … Supreme Court over and over again, even lower level appellate courts do a terrible job of interpreting what SCOTUS wanted done in the first … It would likely have settled out that abortion would be largely legal in the first 20 weeks and largely illegal in the last 20 weeks…

Jun 23, 2015 – Actually, to expand the federal government’s purview to this massive degree would have – should have – required a Constitutional amendment … The first Earth Day was April 22, 1970 – which happens to be Vladimir Lenin’s birthday. What a phenomenal coincidence.…

Jun 22, 2015 – The first of these, Kingsley v. … to do (many ordinances and statutes had been subject to facial challenge under, say, the First Amendment, but not the Fourth). … The Court held that a) facial challenges under the Fourth Amendment were permissible (and not disfavored) and b) that an ordinance…

Jun 21, 2015 – First, timing. … have an expectation of privacy in hotel registries and, more broadly, whether you can challenge laws “facially” under the Fourth Amendment … and there’s five cases to go – the gay marriage case (Obergefell v Hodges), the Oklahoma lethal injection case, a case on 5th Amendment…

Jul 9, 2015 – The goal of the act is to essentially overturn the Hyde Amendment, a rider first introduced in 1976 which keeps certain Federal funds … In 1993, an appropriations act signed into law by President Clinton changed the amendment, adding the exceptions of rape or incest … This week the Left is seeking to do away with the 1976 amendment entirely.…

Jul 8, 2015 – I mean, it’s not like he had a political future for this news to blight in the first place. … (Image via Shutterstock) Moe Lane (crosspost) *Basically, Barry Loudermilk wants to get a amendment defunding RFS added to the…

Jul 6, 2015 – The Constitution is a “living, breathing document” – but with the amendment process as its only respiratory system. … They would not exist without law first creating them.…

Jul 1, 2015 – From the first camp, we have Fredrik DeBoer writing It’s Time to Legalize Polygamy: To be clear: our lack of legal recognition of … First. either from dishonesty or stupidity (your choice) decides the argument is about polygamy, per se.   … Rauch is assuming that the first practitioners of polygamy would be heterosexual.…

Jul 15, 2015 – Mockingbird (I finished Watchman in a day, whereas Mockingbird does require a little more time), and where Mockingbird is set in first … Even Scout admits that she was angry at the decision of the Court, saying it undermined the Tenth Amendment (the book has a couple…

Jul 15, 2015 – So when we talk about ‘freedom of religion’ as a shorthand for the parts of the First Amendment relating to religion, people are only … thinking of the first half. … But there are in fact two distinct religious liberties recognized in the First Amendment.…

Jul 14, 2015 – (HT: Tech Crunch) First of all, people that work for any of these firms get sent a contract that details the status of their relationship … The 13th Amendment expressly points that out. The wages and benefits you work for are exactly the ones you sign up for.…

Jul 14, 2015 – With Net Neutrality it ignored the law and the Constitution, including the first amendment rights of ISPs.…

Oct 15, 2014 – Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson is joined by Phil Kerpen to discuss Democrat efforts to restrict the First … Amendment, Washington’s mishandling of the Ebola outbreak in Dallas and Phil’s work against the FCC. … Related Links: AC Ad Praises Roberts for Defending Freedom of Speech from Liberal Attacks Democrats Voted to Repeal First Amendment…

Oct 13, 2014 – DiGregory testified that while existing federal legislation could be used to prohibit most forms of online gambling, it would require amendment … sports betting and not to the type of real-time interactive gambling (e.g., poker) that the Internet now makes possible for the first…

Oct 10, 2014 – When I first ran for Congress in 2010, I campaigned on the slogan “Enough is enough.” Enough of the reckless spending. … That’s why I appreciate the endorsement from Tea Party Express, who was there the first time I ran for Congress. … Those principles, along with supporting life and the 2nd Amendment, are issues every Republican can and should get behind.…

Oct 9, 2014 – Under the guise of a twisted and corrupted interpretation of the First Amendment, Christianity has gradually been forced from the public … He’s not the first to equate religion with mental illness or “mental damage.”  … What would happen to the First Amendment if one of the defining features of a religion were pathological. Farfetched?…

Oct 24, 2014 – Via Eugene Volokh comes some welcome news for watchers of First Amendment jurisprudence, as the Sixth Circuit has decided to rehear … As such, in First Amendment terms, it is a “traditional public forum” and thus speakers there are entitled to the highest levels of … First Amendment protections.…

Oct 24, 2014 – Harry Reid (D-NV)’ chamber=’senate’ mcid=’R000146′ ] allowing an amendment to a Senate bill. … Indeed, there are rumors that she is calling in noted Democrat strategist Bob  ( “May I be the first to call you ‘Mr.  … Even today, the strict moral code of the first settlers still runs deep in the blue blood of many in the state.…