Results for: First Amendment

The Government Is Still Monitoring Your Phone Calls
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/11/29/the-government-is-still-monitoring-your-phone-calls-n2166967
– information on Americans’ phone conversations and raises concerns about government agencies using the data to violate people’s Fourth Amendment … It appears to be highly problematic from a Fourth Amendment perspective and flouts the reforms of the USA Freedom Act of 2015, which … Former President Barack Obama reportedly suspended the funding for the program in 2013 after The New York Times exposed it for the first…
Noted Presidential Historian Monica Lewinsky Has Some Suggestions for New Constitutional Amendments
https://redstate.com/tladuke/2023/11/28/noted-presidential-h…y-has-some-suggestions-on-constitutional-amendments-n2166891
– Her first suggestion is barring the President from pardoning themselves. As she gleefully writes. … She wants an amendment to get rid of the Electoral College. … We shall dub this the Abortions on Demand Amendment.…
The Left Has Done More to Bring Down Elon Musk's X than China's TikTok and That Should Tell You Something
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2023/11/25/the-left-has-d…an-chinas-tiktok-and-that-should-tell-you-something-n2166793
– “Our First Amendment gives us the right to speak freely and to communicate freely, and TikTok as a platform has created a community…
Pro-Hamas Activists Swarm Los Angeles on Black Friday, Declaring 'No Business As Usual'
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/11/24/pro-hamas-activists-sw…ng-no-business-as-usual-until-palestinians-are-free-n2166774
– The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is closely monitoring the situation, focusing on maintaining safety while respected the First … Amendment rights of those protesting peacefully.…
Former Obama Diplomat Arrested for 'Hate Crime' of Using Mean Words Against Muslim Food Cart Worker
https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/11/23/former-obama-diploma…t-for-hate-crime-against-muslim-food-truck-operaton-n2166746
– That said, the First Amendment gives us the right to be an ass.…
Air Force Backtracks From Warning Members to Avoid a Conservative Political Rally
https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/11/22/air-force-backtracks…ing-members-to-avoid-a-conservative-political-rally-n2166722
– While you give up some First Amendment rights on joining the military, you aren't stripped of them. … updated message communicated there were no issues with military members participating in their personal capacity – in line with their First … Amendment rights.…
New York Appeals Court Reinstates Draconian Public Health Quarantine Rule
https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/11/22/new-york-appeals-cou…t-reinstates-draconian-public-health-quarantine-law-n2166719
– rule repeatedly says that everything will be conducted "consistent with due process of law," the fact is that you are imprisoned first … electronic monitoring of individuals in the home and access to your home by health department employees without any sort of Fourth Amendment … and that the trial court failed to adequately rule on the merits of whether the petitioners had a right to bring the case in the first…
Trump Remains on the Ballot in New Hampshire, and Progressives Need to Get a Life
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2023/11/22/trump-remains-on…n-new-hampshire-and-progressives-need-to-get-a-life-n2166687
– We defeated a challenge to @realDonaldTrump’s being on the ballot in New Hampshire, and the First Circuit court of appeals agreed w … Colorado is back in play, as the Colorado Supreme Court has decided to hear an appeal from the lower court's ruling on the 14th Amendment … District Judge Issues Complicated Ruling: Trump Can't Be Barred by 14th Amendment From Colorado Ballot BREAKING: Minnesota Supreme…
HOT TAKES: Adam Schiff Makes Disturbing Post Against Elon Musk and X, the Internet Responds
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/11/22/hot-takes-adam-sc…post-against-elon-musk-and-x-the-internet-responds-n2166674
– You have to wonder if Schiff or his fellow representatives have ever heard about the First Amendment or their obligation to protect…
Fourth Circuit Court, Citing 'Bruen,' Strikes Down Maryland Handgun Qualification License Law
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/11/21/fourth-circuit-cou…kes-down-maryland-handgun-qualification-license-law-n2166662
– Before one can exercise their Second Amendment right to own a handgun, they must first get an HQL. … This decision comes at a time when Second Amendment advocates are rightly worried about their rights being under attack. … This is a win, but it's a won battle; meanwhile, the larger fight for our Second Amendment rights will continue, the anti-Second Amendment…
Bill Burr Reacts to His Wife Flipping off Trump at UFC 295, and Free Speech Still Rules the Day
https://redstate.com/tladuke/2023/11/21/bill-burr-comments-o…rump-at-ufc-295-and-free-speech-still-rules-the-day-n2166618
– comedy and specific comics — of breaking down the walls of protection and even, in some cases, good taste to make sure that the First … Amendment is honored in the way that the founders intended. … The First Amendment and the protections that it was meant to provide are truly a beautiful thing, and I'm glad that after a brief hibernation…
ACLU Breaks Its Silence on Defending the Second Amendment, Agrees to Represent the NRA at SCOTUS
https://redstate.com/mdempsey/2023/12/10/aclu-has-remained-silent-on-the-second-amendment-until-now-n2167393
– While technically not a pure Second Amendment defense case per se, the case involves the NRA's First Amendment rights allegedly being … By defending the First Amendment rights of the NRA, the ACLU is also defending the Second Amendment rights of all Americans and the … Usually, the saying goes the First Amendment is backed up by the Second Amendment; though in this case, it's the reverse.…
'Fat' Has Now Become the Latest Protected Class: Why This Is a Bad Thing
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/12/10/fat-now-becoming-the-latest-protected-class-why-this-is-a-bad-thing-n2167395
– of my bad habits as legally protected. ....Colorado, America's slimmest state, where Boulder is situated, is set to become the first … While religion is protected under the First Amendment, sexual orientation is not, but if we accept the repeated claims of the left…
How the Free Market Can Solve the Speech Debate on College Campuses
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/12/10/how-the-free-market-can-solve-the-speech-debate-on-college-campuses-n2167397
– The author points out that the schools in question are private institutions and are “not bound by the First Amendment.” … She also notes that “even public universities that are bound by the First Amendment are not helpless in the face of hate speech,” and…
Appeals Court Ruling Upholds Election Interference Gag Order, but There's a Silver Lining for Trump
https://redstate.com/beccalower/2023/12/08/appeals-court-rul…s-j6-gag-order-but-theres-a-silver-lining-for-trump-n2167345
– But the original order, she said, “sweeps in more protected speech than is necessary,” so the First Amendment required a narrower tailoring … What is becoming of our First Amendment, what is becoming of our Country? We will appeal this decision!…
Hunter Biden's Interview With Moby Is Wild: Republicans Trying to 'Kill Me' to End Biden Presidency
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/12/08/hunter-bidens-int…licans-of-trying-to-kill-me-to-end-biden-presidency-n2167340
– "Elon Musk doesn't care about the God d**n First Amendment; he doesn't care about anyone but himself."…
Some Thoughts From an Austinite on the Recent Spree Shooting
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/12/07/some-thoughts-on-the-austin-spree-shooting-n2167302
– But one of the first things I was taught when training with my firearm is that when seconds count, police are only minutes away. … Perhaps it will prompt more people to exercise their Second Amendment rights. … When confronted with a dangerous situation, you are your own first line of defense.  …
Calvin Coolidge: an Enigmatic Conservative President, Who, Thanks to Ron DeSantis, Gets Some Credit
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2023/12/07/calvin-coolidge-a…who-thanks-to-ron-desantis-finally-got-some-credit-n2167291
– First Church helped found Howard University in 1867, and was one of the few racially integrated D.C. parishes of the era. … Coolidge was also a staunch defender of the Suffragist movement, supported the passage of the 19th Amendment, and 10 years after its … In both his first and last year in office, federal receipts were $3.8 billion and expenditures were $3.1 billion, and in between, he…
Ken Paxton, Conservative Media Outlets File Suit Against the State Department Over Government Censorship
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/12/06/ken-paxton-vs-us-s…ate-department-the-horrors-of-government-censorship-n2167254
– Instead, the agency weaponized this authority to violate the First Amendment and suppress Americans’ constitutionally-protected speech … Amendment. … The First Amendment is one of our nation's great treasures.…
Second Circuit Keeps Internet Memester Douglass Mackey Out of Jail and Leaves DOJ With Egg on the Face
https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/12/05/second-circuit-keeps…key-out-of-jail-and-leaves-doj-with-egg-on-the-face-n2167214
– many, this seemed like a targeted political prosecution and a vindictive judge playing to the home crowd, as well as a violation of First … Amendment rights.…
Siaka Massaquoi, RedState Columnist and LA County GOP Official, Arrested at Airport on J6 Misdemeanors
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2023/12/04/redstate-columnis…chair-siaka-massaquoi-arrested-for-protesting-on-j6-n2167133
– Massaquoi, who ran for the California State Assembly in 2022, currently serves as the first vice-chair of the Republican Party of Los … Wallace Tashima—affirmed the dismissal of a Fourth Amendment claim by Siaka Massaquoi, the first vice-chair of the Los Angeles County … Dismissal of his claims under the First and Fifth Amendments was previously summarily affirmed by a Ninth Circuit motions panel.…
Trump's Suggestion That Government Should 'Come Down Hard' on Biased Media Is a Bad Idea
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/12/03/trumps-suggestion-that…should-come-down-hard-on-biased-media-is-a-bad-idea-n2167123
– This is not the first time Trump has made such an argument. … The First Amendment clearly safeguards freedom of speech and the press.…
James Carville Comes Unglued, Rants That GOP Speaker, SCOTUS 'Bigger Threat Than Al-Qaeda'
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/12/02/james-carville-com…d-rants-that-gop-scotus-bigger-threat-than-al-qaeda-n2167092
– By contrast, the Supreme Court has confirmed the Second Amendment and returned the abortion issue to the states. … This time James Carville was the offenderDave Rubin is the first person I've seen on Maher to correct this fallacy by stating the proper…
Thomas Massie Eviscerates Witness Claim That Government-Funded Censorship Is a 'Conspiracy Theory'
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/12/01/thomas-massie-eviscera…government-funded-censorship-is-a-conspiracy-theory-n2167070
– In fact, I don't even think the press or the media has more rights to the First Amendment than the general public.…
Why Republicans Lose - Another View on Religion and Its Influence on Legislative Agendas
https://redstate.com/mdempsey/2023/12/01/why-republicans-los…n-religion-and-its-influence-on-legislative-agendas-n2167045
– The First Amendment reads, in part, that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free … Religious freedom and political liberty were two of the main reasons why the Pilgrims left England for America in the first place.  … This would go against the very core of the First Amendment.…
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