Results for First Amendment

  1. Opinion: Trump Whitewashes the Fence https://redstate.com/darth641/2020/04/15/opinion-trump-whitewashes-the-fence-n134424
    His first victim is his buddy, Ben. … As I write this, I’m watching Juan Williams, FOX News’s token leftist, wax poetic about the wonders of the 10th Amendment. … After he makes said decision, the very first — and every subsequent — fatality will be his fault, according to the leftists and trumpeted…
  2. Fox News Seeks to Dismiss Lawsuit Brought by Whackjob Group in WA State Over Coronavirus Coverage https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2020/04/14/fox-news-washlite-lawsuit-n134421
    Most glaringly, WASHLITE’s “leaders” seem to completely ignore the First Amendment. … The First Amendment does not permit censoring this type of speech based on the theory that it is ‘false’ or ‘outrageous.’ … Under the First Amendment and state law, the truth or falsity of this type of speech must be resolved through free and open debate…
  3. Ted Cruz: Government Rules About Social Distancing Should Not Be Abused to Squelch the First Amendment https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2020/04/14/ted-cruz-gove…should-not-be-abused-to-squelch-the-first-amendment-n134425
    And while public health may require a city to prohibit in-person gatherings, it is an absurdity to apply that ban to First Amendment-protected … levels does have a critical role here in helping to prevent the spread of the disease, but they shouldn’t abuse it to trample on the First … Amendment rights of American citizens to worship and protest.…
  4. Can't We All Just Get Along? Cuomo Threatens to Sue the White House Over a Forced State Reopening https://redstate.com/alexparker/2020/04/14/andrew-cuomo-threaten-white-house-sue-state-reopening-trump-n134442
    He’s pleading the 10th: “We have the Tenth Amendment that is explicit. Certain responsibilities are state responsibilities. … Monday contradicted those he’d previously made, recognizing governors’ rights to steer their states as they see fit: “You know the first … -ALEX   First She Refused to Shut Down South Dakota’s Economy, Now She’s Hosting the First Statewide Hydroxychloroquine Trial…
  5. Buh Bye, First Amendment: Raleigh Police Declare Protest Against Stay at Home Orders a 'Non-Essential Activity' https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/04/14/buh-bye-first-ame…against-stay-at-home-orders-a-non-essential-activity-n134399
    The First Amendment is no longer “essential.” Because our betters tell us so. … Google: “First Amendment” — Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) April 14, 2020 Protesting is a Constitutionally protected. … #ReopenNC https://t.co/GD7hdoqLZj — Sister Toldjah 😁 (@sistertoldjah) April 14, 2020 But they aren't in violation of the First…
  6. Does Anyone Care About Federalism Anymore? https://redstate.com/jeffc/2020/04/14/does-anyone-care-about-federalism-anymore-n134358
    The tenth amendment clearly states, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the … President Trump had it right the first time.…
  7. Religious Freedom Seems to Have Been Singled out for Suppression by Wuhan Virus Regulations https://redstate.com/streiff/2020/04/10/religious-freedom-se…ngled-out-for-suppression-by-wuhan-virus-regulations-n134071
    The First Amendment doesn’t have a Wuhan virus exception.…
  8. Virus-Panicked Liberal Gun Buyers Are Getting Angry When They Discover Their Own Gun Control Laws https://redstate.com/kiradavis/2020/04/10/virus-panicked-lib…angry-when-they-discover-their-own-gun-control-laws-n134029
    Not only are many liberals suddenly learning to love their Second Amendment rights, many of them are finding out that the gun control … The majority of these first timers lost their minds when we went through the Ammo Law requirements. … There are a lot of people like me out there right now — first-timers and Second Amendment haters who feel like a hypocrite for wanting…
  9. Professor Fears the Racist, Sexist Repercussions of a Pandemic-Ending Oxford Vaccine https://redstate.com/alexparker/2020/04/29/emily-cousens-oxf…vaccine-coronavirus-while-male-leaders-sexism-racism-n135850
    The women’s studies professor is concerned all these problems will convince people to put their country first. … war-time rhetoric is useful in instilling a sense that this is a moment when individuals need to make sacrifices and put the country first … Reade’s Allegations Gonging Gavin: An American Liberties Group Sues California’s Governor for Violating Citizens’ 1st and 14th Amendment…
  10. CNN Says China's 'Model of Control' Is Looking Increasingly Attractive, Praises Their Wuhan Virus Response https://redstate.com/bonchie/2020/04/29/cnn-says-chinas-model-of-control-is-looking-increasingly-attractive-n135839
    China, despite being where the virus first emerged, has coped with the ensuing pandemic far better than many other countries, even … As long as they’ve got their freedom of the press, they’d just assume burn the rest of the 1st Amendment to the ground.…
  11. If You Are Still Wondering How Death Camps Happen Just Take a Look Around You https://redstate.com/streiff/2020/04/29/if-you-are-still-won…g-how-death-camps-happen-just-take-a-look-around-you-n135849
    First, like a wild beast that has tasted human blood, government has found the magic potion to rid itself of the US Constitution. … They will tell you, on camera, that assembly (that’s one of those thingies specifically mentioned in the First Amendment) is illegal…
  12. Bill de Blasio Threatens to Arrest Jews in Bonkers Tweet, Gets Rightly Dragged in Response https://redstate.com/bonchie/2020/04/29/bill-de-blasio-threaten-to-arrest-jews-in-bonkers-tweet-n135752
    whether the government, local or federal, have the legal right to arrest people for exercising their constitutional rights in the first … New York telling Jews that "the time for warning has passed" and promising to round them up and arrest them if they exercise their First … Amendment rights.…
  13. Gonging Gavin: An American Liberties Group Sues California's Governor for Violating Citizens' 1st and 14th Amendment Rights https://redstate.com/alexparker/2020/04/28/gavin-newsom-laws…ristine-bish-center-american-liberty-harmeet-dhillon-n135720
    Neither the Governor’s Order or state public health directives exempt demonstrations, protests, or other First Amendment-protected … The Governor’s orders thus deny all California residents the right to exercise their First Amendment rights to free speech, free assembly … Neither the Governor’s Order or state public health directives exempt demonstrations, protests, or other First Amendment-protected…
  14. Want The Pentagon's Help With A Film? Sen. Ted Cruz Plans To Make That Impossible If A Studio Bows To Chinese Censorship https://redstate.com/slee/2020/04/28/want-the-pentagons-help…at-impossible-if-a-studio-bows-to-chinese-censorship-n135712
    the Senate is back in session that will ultimately present film studios with an intriguing Sophie’s Choice of a sort: defer to the First … Amendment or defer to Chinese Communist propaganda guidelines — but only the former allows you to work with the Pentagon.…
  15. NBC News Chief Gets an Inconvenient Matt Lauer Reminder After Bragging About Media 'Winning' in the Trump Era https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2020/04/27/nbc-news-chie…after-bragging-about-media-winning-in-the-trump-era-n135597
    The president put the bully in bully pulpit, but he hasn’t shaken the soul of the First Amendment. https://t.co/1GfegciY0K — Ken … First off, the pressure to be another Woodward and Bernstein has led to some pretty colossal mistakes being made by journalists over…
  16. The Science Isn't Settled https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2020/04/24/the-science-isnt-settled-n135370
    at a discovery for something completely unrelated to the hypothesis you were testing, you only got there by mistake because you first … Rest assured, we will find a way, but it first starts with asking how and finding out what works and what doesn’t. … s=20 Referencing a quack treatment to defend Trump's 25th Amendment moment yesterday is… actually all you can do at this point to…
  17. Democrats Plan to Censure, Withhold Endorsements for State Rep Who Claimed That Hydroxychloroquine Saved Her Life https://redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2020/04/23/democrats-p…p-who-claimed-that-hydroxychloroquine-saved-her-life-n135310
    Karen Whitsett, a first-term lawmaker representing the 9th Michigan House District.  … I have my First Amendment right, and no one will take that away from me.”…
  18. Democratic Georgia State Representative Who Endorsed Trump Makes His Next Move https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2020/04/22/democratic-ge…epresentative-who-endorsed-trump-makes-his-next-move-n135233
    My first amendment right to freedom of speech is under siege.…
  19. God VS. Gavin: 3,000 California Churches Choose to Defy the Governor's Orders and Reopen on Pentecost Sunday https://redstate.com/alexparker/2020/05/08/california-church…united-reopen-pentecost-sunday-defiance-gavin-newsom-n136723
    Matt Brown — pastor of Riverside’s Sandals Church — slammed Gavin for declaring churches nonessential in the first place. … to Sit in Chairs Gonging Gavin: An American Liberties Group Sues California’s Governor for Violating Citizens’ 1st and 14th Amendment…
  20. Bye Bye, Constitution: De Blasio Says Protests Are Not Allowed in NYC Because of Virus https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/05/08/bye-by-constituti…says-protests-are-no-longer-allowed-in-new-york-city-n136659
    They claimed that the requirement to social distance took precedence over First Amendment rights.…
  21. Who Could've Guessed? Newsom's Chinese Mask Deal Hits a Huge Snag https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2020/05/07/update-newsoms-chinese-masks-n136504
    It stipulates that the state will pay half of the total cost of the deal — $495 million — in advance of the first 150 million masks … While the state initially sought 100 million surgical masks through the deal, it now plans to buy even more, according to the amendment…
  22. The Relationship Between Police and Conservatives Has Been Severely Wounded https://redstate.com/bonchie/2020/05/07/the-police-have-blown-the-good-will-they-used-to-enjoy-n136532
    We’ve seen the literal suspension of the First Amendment and people told they can’t even travel between their own properties.…
  23. Opinion: Sean Hannity Is Wrong About Armed Protestors. https://redstate.com/darth641/2020/05/07/opinion-sean-hannity-is-wrong-about-armed-protestors-n136475
    First of all, is Mr. Hannity’s specious reasoning that (legally) armed American citizens somehow put the police at risk. … First of all, that’s a pretty big stretch, “dressed as if you’re going to violently enact a coup.” … There is a school of thought that believes something along the lines of: The Second Amendment is there, so the politicians pay attention…
  24. Why People Are Wrong About Michigan Protesters Carrying Guns https://redstate.com/tladuke/2020/05/06/vip-why-people-are-wrong-about-michigan-protesters-carrying-guns-n136490
    to sit here and condemn anyone’s personal choice of flying the Stars and Bars of the Confederacy, being that is, of course, their First … Amendment right and that is not the focus of this article.…
  25. Ohio Unions Are Ignoring Requests to Leave - It's Time for Gov. DeWine, Admin Services to Act https://redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2020/05/06/ohio-unio…leave-its-time-for-gov-dewine-admin-services-to-act-n136421
    office in October 2019 and has been working tirelessly ever since to help educate more than 330,000 public employees about their First … Amendment right to opt out of their union.…