Results for: First Amendment
Finding Common Ground
https://redstate.com/danbenishek/2014/10/10/finding-common-ground-n50709
https://redstate.com/danbenishek/2014/10/10/finding-common-ground-n50709
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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.…
Religion: a looming mental health crisis
https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/10/09/religion-looming-mental-health-crisis-n50696
https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/10/09/religion-looming-mental-health-crisis-n50696
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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?…
Is Islam Compatible with Free Speech?
https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2014/10/24/islam-compatible-free-speech-n50868
https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2014/10/24/islam-compatible-free-speech-n50868
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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.…
Wendy Davis is NOT running the worst campaign ever.
https://redstate.com/gawken/2014/10/24/wendy-davis-running-worst-campaign-ever-n50866
https://redstate.com/gawken/2014/10/24/wendy-davis-running-worst-campaign-ever-n50866
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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.…
A vote for Democrats is 'A Vote for President Obama.'
https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/10/22/democrats-barack-obama-n50846
https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/10/22/democrats-barack-obama-n50846
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we are that we might not recognize that the ability to say This politician is a fool; do not vote for fools is the bedrock of the First … Amendment? … *Who are, by the way, currently funding Sixth Amendment rights: “The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers announced this…
Fact Check On Fact Check Of Dana Loesch's New Book 'Hands Off My Gun'
https://redstate.com/absentee/2014/10/22/fact-check-fact-check-dana-loeschs-hot-new-book-hands-gun-n50841
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Thomas Jefferson, and other Founding Fathers, despite the fact that it purports to teach readers about “the history of the Second Amendment … (Respectfully, I would argue that most sixth graders understand the Second Amendment, and civics, better than Senator Feinstein.) … Guess we know who should be the first ones in line for that tutorial.
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The Vine
https://redstate.com/breeanneh/2014/10/20/vine-23-n50810
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in which city officials claimed they would be ticketing the campaign for their lack of a supposed permit needed to exercise their First … Amendment rights. … While laws around the country are giving rights to the unborn, in Tennessee voters will hopefully pass an amendment that tackles the…
Dear Republicans: No One Elected You to Work with Democrats
https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2014/11/05/dear-republicans-one-elected-work-democrats-n51021
https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2014/11/05/dear-republicans-one-elected-work-democrats-n51021
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Consider what they have stood for the last two years – they have literally tried to rewrite the First Amendment to make it not apply … They believe in eliminating the death penalty for convicted first degree murderers but in using taxpayer funds to pay for the deaths…
Lessons From the Night
https://redstate.com/erick/2014/11/05/lessons-from-the-night-n51018
https://redstate.com/erick/2014/11/05/lessons-from-the-night-n51018
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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
https://redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2014/11/04/voted-yes-question-1-ny-n51006
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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
https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2014/11/03/tennessee-vote-yes-1-n50975
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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
https://redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2014/11/11/nobody-vox-com-read-fourteenth-amendment-n51085
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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
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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
https://redstate.com/mickeywhite2/2016/12/15/facebook-censor-fake-news-feed-n65090
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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
https://redstate.com/setonmotley/2016/12/15/shocker-government-bureaucrats-dont-understand-business-economics-n65084
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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
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lindsaycohen) December 14, 2016
Judge James Robart was not impressed and rejected the suits basis that the elector’s vote was a First … Amendment 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
https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2016/12/13/common-sense-environment-won-mostly-election-day-n65002
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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
https://redstate.com/streiff/2016/12/11/facebook-fake-news-hysteria-just-censorship-rent-seeking-disguise-n64898
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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
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2016/12/09/new-york-state-latest-n64865
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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
https://redstate.com/patterico/2016/12/08/fake-news-complaints-big-media-fake-n64780
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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
https://redstate.com/joliphant/2016/12/08/watercooler-120816…take-hit-uk-parliament-overwhelmingly-supports-brexit-n64818
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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
https://redstate.com/jaycaruso/2016/12/21/ny-times-editorial-calling-to-abolish-electoral-college-is-garbage-n65283
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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
https://redstate.com/jaycaruso/2016/12/19/excuse-number-eleventy-billion-hillary-lost-voter-id-laws-n65206
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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
https://redstate.com/streiff/2016/12/17/breaking-trump-taps-mick-mulvaney-director-omb-n65158
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Mulvaney is also an advocate of a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution.
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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
https://redstate.com/mickeywhite2/2016/12/16/hoax-cry-help-yasmin-seweid-honor-crimes-n65127
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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…