Results for: First Amendment
Congress Demands Answers over IRS’s “Collusive” Attempt to Target Churches for Angry Atheists
https://redstate.com/matthewclark/2014/08/26/congress-demand…irss-collusive-attempt-target-churches-angry-atheists-n50233
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Rather than taking the tried and true arguments that won them the first case, the IRS agreement allows the Freedom from Religion Foundation … Clearly any agreement or settlement between an abusive IRS and angry atheists cannot trump the First Amendment rights of pastors and…
It's Time to Pay Attention to Kansas
https://redstate.com/josh_hammer/2014/08/20/time-pay-attention-kansas-n50172
https://redstate.com/josh_hammer/2014/08/20/time-pay-attention-kansas-n50172
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Mike Pompeo (KS-04) and Tim Huelskamp (KS-01), this strikes us at first blush as counterintuitive. … Ryan had himself first made his D.C. bones with Empower America, the predecessor to FreedomWorks, which was co-founded by Kemp. … Personally, I would love to see a wholesale repeal of the 16th Amendment and the elimination of the IRS as a federal agency, coupled…
A Glimpse Into the Mind of a Fascist
https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2014/08/20/glimpse-mind-fascist-n50165
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The First Amendment protects citizens even during the course of interacting with cops. … Everyone knows that cops never question, arrest, tase, beat, or shoot you unless you committed a crime first. It’s just logic.…
What Title II Regulation of the Internet Actually Means
https://redstate.com/freedomworks/2014/09/16/title-ii-regulation-internet-actually-means-n50443
https://redstate.com/freedomworks/2014/09/16/title-ii-regulation-internet-actually-means-n50443
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want to subject the internet – a law, it will be remembered, that was passed decades before anyone had even so much as dreamt the first … charge, practice, classification, or regulation that is unjust or unreasonable is hereby declared to be unlawful
Here we see the first … The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, prohibiting involuntary servitude, appears to have been overlooked here.…
Ted Cruz's Chief of Staff Move to Campaign Team a Hopeful Sign
https://redstate.com/erick/2014/09/10/cruz-chief-of-staff-move-to-campaign-team-a-hopeful-sign-n50378
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going to Washington sell out the conviction he ran on, but actually, as we’ve all known, does believe in federalism, the tenth amendment … First, the Cruz staff is known to be rock solid conservative – and it functions that way. … Taking Chip to the Presidential effort is a good first step of what will be many more needed to get the job done.…
Harry Reid Trolls Himself
https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2014/09/09/harry-reid-trolls-n50364
https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2014/09/09/harry-reid-trolls-n50364
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Republicans have allowed a vote on the Bernie Sanders/Tom Udall anti-Koch Brothers constitutional amendment.
Seriously. … I mean, if you really and truly do have actual business to attend to, maybe you should attend to that first and then later if you have … You look a bit silly claiming that Republicans are cynically exploiting a bill that you only brought up cynically in the first place…
Tom Udall vs. The First Amendment
https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2014/09/08/tom-udall-vs-first-amendment-n50346
https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2014/09/08/tom-udall-vs-first-amendment-n50346
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Socialist-VT) to pen a lengthy, meandering, hypocritical, and logically challenged piece in Politico describing a constitutional amendment … * * *
When the Supreme Court says, for purposes of the First Amendment, that corporations are people, that writing checks from … First, the issue of the Voting Rights Act and Voter ID laws (which are supported by an astounding 70% of Americans) are completely…
Guess who predicted the anti-Christian discrimination at Vanderbilt and Cal State?
https://redstate.com/bs/2014/09/08/guess-predicted-anti-christian-discrimination-vanderbilt-cal-state-n50339
https://redstate.com/bs/2014/09/08/guess-predicted-anti-christian-discrimination-vanderbilt-cal-state-n50339
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Yes, the First Amendment protects these views.…
Justice Ginsburg advocates aborting the poor
https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/09/25/justice-ginsburg-advocates-aborting-poor-n50529
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McRae — in 1980 the court upheld the Hyde Amendment, which forbids the use of Medicaid for abortions.] … Jonah Goldberg observes that this view places Ginsburg firmly in the mainstream of Progressive tradition:
First, Ginsburg’s view…
Ninth Circuit agrees school can ban American flag
https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/09/19/ninth-circuit-n50476
https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/09/19/ninth-circuit-n50476
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Such a rationale contravenes fundamental First Amendment principles.
If this decision stands, the implications are terrifying.…
BREAKING. 'GOP' Sponsor of Fusion GPS's Opposition Research Identifies Themselves
https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/10/27/breaking-gop-sponsor…fusion-gpss-opposition-research-identifies-themselves-n78880
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That subpoena is in court, but unless the Obama-appointed judte finds more emanations and penumbras of the Fourth Amendment, they are … The First Amendment guarantees our right to engage in news-gathering as we see fit, and we intend to continue doing just that as we…
The Derp State: Trump Congratulates Himself for Attacks on the First Amendment
https://redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/10/26/derp-state-trump-congratulates-attacks-first-amendment-n78793
https://redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/10/26/derp-state-trump-congratulates-attacks-first-amendment-n78793
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Not healthy for a free nation or our First Amendment rights.
Did I say the man wasn’t stable?…
The ACLU Once Again Proves it Wants Free Speech Rights for Everyone Except Christians
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2017/10/25/aclu-proves-wants-free-speech-rights-everyone-except-christians-n78774
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That’s why the ACLU’s attack against Colorado Christian baker Jack Phillips includes a dismissal of the First Amendment in their brief … “This is not the first time a business open to the public has sought to avoid an anti-discrimination law by invoking the First Amendment … That the ACLU — a group that claims to stand up for civil liberties — seems to think it’s okay to not only dismiss the First Amendment…
McConnell Says President, GOP on Same Page Following Lunch
https://redstate.com/slee/2017/10/24/mcconnell-says-president-gop-page-following-lunch-n78706
https://redstate.com/slee/2017/10/24/mcconnell-says-president-gop-page-following-lunch-n78706
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“We are all on the same page,” McConnell said, adding — when questioned about Trump’s supposed feud with Corker — that the first amendment…
'Burly Aussie Man' Clarifies 2nd Amendment for Teen Vogue Writer
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2017/10/24/burly-aussie-man-clarifies-2nd-amendment-teen-vogue-writer-n78710
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2017/10/24/burly-aussie-man-clarifies-2nd-amendment-teen-vogue-writer-n78710
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A burly Aussie man put our gun debate into condemning clarity: "Why do you act like you can't change the 2nd Amendment? … It's an AMENDMENT. … And, let’s not forget, it’s just an AMENDMENT that allows for freedom of the press.…
Suddenly Kathy Griffin Isn't So Annoying
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2017/10/23/suddenly-kathy-griffin-isnt-annoying-n78667
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2017/10/23/suddenly-kathy-griffin-isnt-annoying-n78667
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In addition, Griffin says that on a post-mortem conference call with her entertainment attorney, her First Amendment attorney, Bloom…
Water Cooler 11/09/17 Open Thread; Queer Students Only; Tyranny Of The Trees ?; Not a Nothing Burger This Time
https://redstate.com/joliphant/2017/11/09/water-cooler-11091…queer-students-tyranny-trees-not-nothing-burger-time-n79598
https://redstate.com/joliphant/2017/11/09/water-cooler-11091…queer-students-tyranny-trees-not-nothing-burger-time-n79598
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It’s nice to see some people actually get to exercise their first amendment rights, it’s a shame we lost one…
FINALLY: House GOP Announces Preservation of Adoption Tax Credit
https://redstate.com/kimberly_ross/2017/11/09/gop-adoption-tax-credit-n79591
https://redstate.com/kimberly_ross/2017/11/09/gop-adoption-tax-credit-n79591
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“I’m pleased to offer this amendment to the Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute on behalf of the majority on the Ways and Means … Similar to the amendment I offered on Monday, this amendment will refine several provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. … “First, among other important improvements, this amendment will preserve the adoption tax credit.…
Justina Pelletier’s Guardian Hacktivist: “My Notes On the FBI’s Lies Are Contraband”
https://redstate.com/marty-gottesfeld/2017/11/08/justina-pel…ers-guardian-hacktivist-my-notes-fbis-lies-contraband-n79522
https://redstate.com/marty-gottesfeld/2017/11/08/justina-pel…ers-guardian-hacktivist-my-notes-fbis-lies-contraband-n79522
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Imagine too that your own lawyers actually agreed to it on your behalf without even checking with you first. … recently wrote about another one of the federal government’s dirtiest tricks, the so-called “good faith exception” to the 4th Amendment … The prosecution requested it and my first attorneys agreed to it without ever consulting me.…
After VA, Defining "Never Trump"
https://redstate.com/sarah-rumpf/2017/11/08/defining-never-trump-n79483
https://redstate.com/sarah-rumpf/2017/11/08/defining-never-trump-n79483
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First, he is unique among modern American politicians in being extraordinarily difficult to classify along traditional liberal-conservative … I’ve remained staunchly pro-life, supportive of entitlement reform, repealing Obamacare, Second Amendment rights, and so have many…
Democrat Senator: No Decision By Neil Gorsuch Should Carry Any Weight
https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/11/03/democrat-senator-no-decision-neil-gorsuch-carry-weight-n79270
https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/11/03/democrat-senator-no-decision-neil-gorsuch-carry-weight-n79270
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Janus believes that this compulsory arrangement violates his rights under the First Amendment. … He is being forced to subsidize speech of others – AFSCME officials – and the First Amendment protects against the government making … “Because this is the seat that for the first time in U.S.…
The GOP's New Tax Bill Holds a Big Change for Churches
https://redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/11/02/gops-new-tax-bill-holds-big-change-churches-n79206
https://redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/11/02/gops-new-tax-bill-holds-big-change-churches-n79206
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Many on the religious right are all for it, wrongly considering it a violation of their First Amendment rights. … The First Amendment assures that, and nothing has taken that away from pastors, ministers, or priests. … I also don’t believe the Johnson Amendment should have ever been necessary.…
Trump's Rebuilding of the US Appeals Courts Continues
https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/11/02/trumps-rebuilding-us-appeals-courts-continues-n79186
https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/11/02/trumps-rebuilding-us-appeals-courts-continues-n79186
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Both the Senate Democrats and the New York Times campaigned against her because she actually lives her faith and sought to turn the First … Amendment on its head by saying she was too faithful to serve on an Appeals Court. … impartial, and committed to dispensing equal justice under law….Rejecting judicial nominees who will make it worse is a really good first…
Watch Ben Sasse Crush the Myth that the American Bar Association is 'Objective and Neutral'
https://redstate.com/jimjamitis/2017/11/17/watch-ben-sasse-crush-myth-american-bar-association-objective-neutral-n79962
https://redstate.com/jimjamitis/2017/11/17/watch-ben-sasse-crush-myth-american-bar-association-objective-neutral-n79962
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It’s the right given to them and every American by the First Amendment.…
Sorry Colin Kaepernick, But You're No Pat Tillman
https://redstate.com/joshkimbrell/2017/11/15/sorry-colin-kaepernick-youre-no-pat-tillman-n79812
https://redstate.com/joshkimbrell/2017/11/15/sorry-colin-kaepernick-youre-no-pat-tillman-n79812
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Tillman was the first professional football player killed in combat since 1970 during the height of the Vietnam War. … The First Amendment to our noble Constitution guarantees free speech to each of our citizens, and I respect that right even if I disagree…