Results for: First Amendment

RedState's WaterCooler! Friday, 1/6/2017 - Open Thread - Feast of Epiphany; When is .3% greater than 100%?
https://redstate.com/earhartam/2017/01/06/redstates-watercoo…riday-162017-open-thread-feast-epiphany-3-greater-100-n65831
– Although, if Transgenders want civil rights as transgender, they should first understand their fundamental role in civil community. … First, they’re arrogant in their unlikeness, then defeated by their solitude. … The first Epiphany as an ecclesiastical feast was celebrated the 6th of January in 361 A.D.…
Watercooler 01/05/2017; Judge Rules Citizens Do Have A Right To Criticize Govt.; Finland Starts Universal Income Experiment; University Course In How Not To Be A Man
https://redstate.com/joliphant/2017/01/05/watercooler-010520…universal-income-experiment-university-course-not-man-n65763
– That 1st Amendment Does Actually Mean Citizens Can Criticize Elected Officials In 2014, Maple Heights, Ohio, Mayor Jeffrey Lansky … Mayor Lansky, a Democrat, and Brownlee, a Republican, are longtime political foes, and this was not the first time they met in court … “First, facilitators ask students to consider how the students’ opinions about masculinity affect their own perceptions every day.…
The Elon Musk Myth Looks to Contaminate Texas
https://redstate.com/setonmotley/2017/01/05/elon-musk-myth-looks-contaminate-texas-n65753
– even with the federal coin – cost way too much and aren’t purchased by anyone outside of uber-wealthy preening elites: “(Tesla’s) first … Like auto dealers’ First Amendment freedom to assemble – completely free of government intervention or say. … To rid ourselves of them – we must first rid ourselves of the federal antitrust precursor: “(S)imply repealing the dealer franchise…
The Epic Fail That Has Been the Obama Presidency
https://redstate.com/california_yankee/2017/01/20/the-epic-fail-that-has-been-the-obama-presidency-n66362
– Obama also failed to keep his promise to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term.  … You shouldn’t be shocked by Obama’s failure to reduce the deficit in half by the end of his first term in office. … Obama lost his war on guns — his campaign to repress our Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms.”…
What Will Wednesday's Supreme Court Oral Argument Mean for the First Amendment?
https://redstate.com/patterico/2017/01/18/todays-supreme-court-oral-argument-mean-first-amendment-n66385
– Early Wednesday I previewed for you a major First Amendment case that was argued in the Supreme Court today: Lee v. Tam. … Trademark Office (USPTO) to deny trademark protection to so-called “disparaging” trademarks, will be struck down as a violation of the FirstAmendment to the U.S.…
A Major First Amendment Case Will Be Argued Today at the Supreme Court
https://redstate.com/patterico/2017/01/18/major-first-amendment-case-will-argued-today-supreme-court-n66241
– Tam, a major First Amendment case. Michelle K. … The question presented is whether the disparagement clause is contrary to the First Amendment. … The central purpose of the First Amendment is to prevent the government from engaging in viewpoint discrimination — and viewpoint discrimination…
Trump Doesn't Want to be President Until Monday
https://redstate.com/california_yankee/2017/01/17/trump-doesnt-want-president-monday-n66271
– President-elect Trump and presidential candidate promised again and again to do a great many things on the first day of his presidency … You need look no further than his so-called Contract With the American Voter — his plan for the first hundred days of his presidency … Immediately pursue the following six measures to clean up the corruption and special interest collusion in Washington, DC: FIRST
The Replacement For Obamacare Is Here
https://redstate.com/truefreak/2017/01/15/the-replacement-for-obamacare-is-here-n66176
– , here we are, with over 30 state governments, the House, the Senate and (presumably) the Presidency in Republican hands for the firstFIRST THINGS FIRST First, any replacement needs to move the opposite direction of the ACA, and adhere to the constitution. … Furthermore, the 14th amendment assures that each state must honor contracts, agreements and personal ownership across state lines.…
San Francisco PD Stops Cooperating With Federal Anti-Terrorism Investigations
https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/02/03/san-francisco-pd-stops-cooperating-federal-anti-terrorism-investigations-n67342
– force entered into an agreement with the FBI that authorized intelligence-gathering by San Francisco officers of people engaged in FirstAmendment activities such as religious services, protests and political assemblies.…
The "Money in Politics" Argument Was Killed by Hillary Clinton
https://redstate.com/neil_stevens/2017/02/03/money-politics-argument-killed-hillary-clinton-n67303
– We’ve been attacked by “Campaign Finance Reform” laws that strip us of our first amendment rights, and efforts to pass more of them…
Congress Repeals Two Obama Regulations
https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/02/03/congress-repeals-two-obama-regulations-n67305
– Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) co-authored an amendment to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law requiring it. … Oil companies and other opponents convinced a federal judge to toss out the first version of the rule in 2013, forcing the Obama administration…
RedState's WaterCooler! Tuesday, 1/31/2017 - Open Thread - First Lady on the Cover of Vanity Fair Mexico; Calendar February 2017
https://redstate.com/earhartam/2017/01/31/redstates-watercoo…lady-cover-vanity-fair-mexico-calendar-february-2017-n67157
– tweeted their February cover featuring First Lady Melania. … Question: Does the 4th Amendment apply to unjustified deadly force to a Mexican citizen? … The first state to ratify the Amendment was Illinois on February 1st and the last of twenty-seven was Georgia, December 6th, 1865.…
Donald Trump's Supreme Court Pick Should Not Be Thomas Hardiman
https://redstate.com/patterico/2017/01/30/donald-trumps-supreme-court-pick-not-thomas-hardiman-n67087
– He is solid on the Second Amendment, where his decisions give the greatest hope to judicial conservatives that he would be willing … Hardiman tends to be more authoritarian on the First Amendment and other issues relating to government power.…
Melania Trump Takes Next Step in Libel Suit Against The Daily Mail
https://redstate.com/mickeywhite2/2017/01/26/melania-trump-legal-drama-daily-mail-n66967
– The first lady filed the lawsuit in 2016, and has already made one court appearance in Maryland related to the suit. … Amendment activity. … I mean she is the First Lady of Fashion, and inspiring to see.…
Badlands National Park Rejoins the Federal Government After Twitter Rampage
https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/01/25/badlands-national-park-rejoins-federal-government-n66852
– Via Ken White, aka Popehat, who is a libertarian First Amendment attorney: OK. Those gov't social media accounts. … — AntifaProvocateurHat (@Popehat) January 24, 2017 /2 I assume nobody's saying that a gov't employee has a First Amendment right…
Back-and-Forth Responses to Women's March All Miss the Point
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2017/01/25/responses-responses-womens-march-miss-point-n66832
– It took over 40 years for the Nineteenth Amendment to be ratified, giving women the right to vote. … At the office, moms are still the parent called first when a child is sick.…
Watercooler 01/08/16 Open Thread: "Assault" Rifles, POTUS, and Islamic perverts
https://redstate.com/dansweigard/2016/01/08/watercooler-0108…n-thread-assault-rifles-potus-islamic-sexual-assaults-n55881
– Folks if our base does not know these things we are going to lose the war being waged on our second amendment rights.   … First story involves roaming gangs of “refugee” rapists in Germany.  At least 90 sexual assaults in one evening!  …
How Did an American Hellfire Missile End Up in Cuba?
https://redstate.com/ironchapman/2016/01/08/american-hellfire-missile-end-cuba-n55869
– The first is obvious: it’s entirely probable that Cuba and several regimes with vested interests in weakening us now have their hands … It’s about controlling people and taking away their Second Amendment-guaranteed rights, but we’ve all heard the rhetoric used.…
Context on Guns
https://redstate.com/beeline/2016/01/08/context-guns-n55879
First of all, I am not a gun nut. I have used firearms and at one time had obtained the NRA Sharpshooter classification.   … I believe the 2nd Amendment is pretty clear. … In fact, almost 2/3 of deaths from firearms in the first five years of the Obama administration were from suicides.…
CNN Reporter Can't Believe Anyone Thinks Obama Wants to Take Their Guns (VIDEO)
https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/01/06/cnn-reporter-cant-believe-anyone-thinks-obama-wants-take-guns-video-n55836
– Limoges: I think it’s probably a first step towards it, yes. Berman: [incredulous] Really?? … Berman: Look, but he says he respects the Second Amendment, and if you look at the actions he has taken, even the ones several years…
The Machiavellian Brilliance of Ted Cruz
https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/01/06/machiavellian-brilliance-ted-cruz-n55826
– culminating in late September, when Senate leadership was able to deliver a nearly unanimous rebuke to Cruz’s efforts to offer an amendment … The first are Trump supporters, who tend to be blue collar, disaffected Democrats and are largely otherwise outside easy characterization…
South Carolina Republican shows up the gun grabbers in the press
https://redstate.com/neil_stevens/2016/01/20/south-carolina-republican-shows-gun-grabbers-press-n56137
– the fruitcakes at the New York Daily News) are all eager to have licensing, registration, testing, and control over our Second Amendment … You know, just the kinds of things they want for our Second Amendment rights, his bill would apply to the First.…
The Foundations behind the Left
https://redstate.com/jonhenke/2016/01/19/foundations-behind-left-n56125
– Indeed, President Obama himself was a part of this, spending 8 years funding gun control and anti-2nd amendment research and advocacy … [This is the first in a series] Jon Henke is an unpaid advisor to TechFreedom. …
Let's Put an End to this Birther Nonsense about Ted Cruz
https://redstate.com/ironchapman/2016/01/19/lets-put-an-end-to-this-birther-nonsense-about-ted-cruz-n56106
– The latest speculation I’ve seen surrounds the Naturalization Act of 1790 passed by the First Congress. … He even married his first wife there, Julia Ann Garza, in 1959. … Clause and Fourteenth Amendment Citizenship Clause.…
Martin Luther King, Jr. (Jan. 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968)
https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/01/18/martin-luther-king-jr-jan-15-1929-april-4-1968-n56088
– But such an ordinance becomes unjust when it is used to maintain segregation and to deny citizens the First-Amendment privilege of … First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. … At first I was rather disappointed that fellow clergymen would see my nonviolent efforts as those of an extremist.…
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