Results for: First Amendment

Monday Morning Minute: Super Meh
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2025/02/10/monday-morning-minute-n2185397
– store owners may make for an inviting target, especially in a state like Illinois where lawmakers are so hostile to our Second Amendment … rights, but that doesn't give the government carte blanche to sieze their assets first and try to prove a crime later.How Bureaucrats…
Back on the Same Page: DOJ and FBI Reach Agreement Over J6 Agent List Lawsuit
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2025/02/07/back-on-the-same-pa…and-fbi-reach-agreement-over-j6-agent-list-lawsuit-n2185341
– Department of Justice (DOJ), asserting unlawful retaliation, Privacy Act and Administrative Procedures Act violations, as well as First … Amendment and due process violations, in relation to January 6th. … disseminate the list of agents/employees before the court issues a ruling on the Plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary action unless it first…
'Wrong Neighborhood, Buddy!' Video Shows Fed-Up LA Residents Detaining Arsonist
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2025/02/06/this-is-how-its-done-video-shows-la-residents-detaining-arsonist-n2185215
– Street People of Los Angeles (@streetpeopleoflosangeles)In this view, you can see that one of the citizens is utilizing his 2nd Amendment … Let me be clear — if you intentionally set fire to our land, endanger our residents, and threaten our first responders, we will prosecute…
After More Than 3 Years, Another Biden Lawfare Scheme Has Been Dismantled
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2025/02/05/after-more-than-3…tigation-regarding-ashley-bidens-diary-is-completed-n2185269
– result of their investigation into Ashley Biden’s diary.The FBI conducted a predawn raid and unlawfully took their devices and other First … Amendment-protected items related to their journalism work.Since then, they have been fighting in court.…
Lawfare Resumes: Judge Blocks Trump's Order Sending Transgender Prisoners to the Correct Prison
https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/02/05/lawfare-resumes-judg…sending-transgender-prisoners-to-the-correct-prison-n2185227
– The first was in Massachusetts (you just knew it was going to be Massachusetts or California, didn't you?) … Security shall ensure that males are not detained in women’s prisons or housed in women’s detention centers, including through amendment … prisoners were housed, according to the judge’s order.But the judge granted the restraining order based on the plaintiffs’ Eighth Amendment…
NEW: DOJ Memo Clarifies FBI Rank and File Aren't on Chopping Block Over J6
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2025/02/05/new-doj-memo-clarif…s-fbi-rank-and-file-arent-on-chopping-block-over-j6-n2185248
– Department of Justice (DOJ) asserting unlawful retaliation, Privacy Act and Administrative Procedures Act violations, as well as First … Amendment and due process violations.FBI v.…
Win Against Antisemites: Judge Rules on Dismissal of Case of Jewish Students Locked in NY College Library
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/02/05/win-against-antise…dismissal-of-jewish-students-vs-cooper-union-denied-n2185255
– It's not a First Amendment case.…
FBI v. DOJ - Agents Sue to Block Public Identification of Those Who Worked on J6
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2025/02/04/fbi-v-doj-agents-su…ock-public-identification-of-those-who-worked-on-j6-n2185204
– Department of Justice (DOJ), asserting unlawful retaliation, Privacy Act and Administrative Procedures Act violations, as well as First … Amendment and due process violations.…
WATCH: On Los Angeles' Second Night of Violent Anti-ICE Protests, Mayor Bass Again Refuses to Arrest
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2025/02/04/its-los-angeles-s…nti-ice-protests-mayor-bass-again-refuses-to-arrest-n2185173
– monitored" the fires from Ghana.My office is actively monitoring the protests downtown.Angelenos have the right to express their First … Amendment rights, but it must be in a safe and lawful way.L.A. is a city of immigrants and we will protect all Angelenos.— Mayor Karen … One woman was thrown from a moving vehicle and landed face first on the pavement, according to local television channel KCAL.…
Moderate Chicago City Council Members Fed Up With Mayor Johnson Protecting Sanctuary Status
https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2025/02/03/moderate-chicago…or-johnson-and-liberals-protecting-sanctuary-status-n2185144
– The amendment would permit law enforcement to work with ICE if an illegal immigrant is arrested or convicted of one or more of four … The left-leaning City Council majority defeated the amendment 39-11. … Perhaps fearing pushback, Johnson's office reverted to scare tactics and circulated a memo before the vote that said that the amendment…
Targets for the DOGE: Why Are We Giving Money to PBS and NPR?
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/02/03/targets-for-the-doge-why-are-we-giving-money-to-pbs-and-npr-n2185148
– justified.I know, I know - there I go, bringing up the Constitution again, as though it was the highest law in the land or something.NPR first … The DOGE, if they aren't already, would be well-advised to use the 10th Amendment as a major guideline in their recommendations to…
Targets for the DOGE: Do We Need This Dept. of Energy Office Full of Climate Scold Regulations?
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/02/01/targets-for-the-do…he-office-of-energy-efficiency-and-renewable-energy-n2185085
– The first type is that of codes that can be adopted by state and local authorities that prescribe how residential or commercial buildings … , neither the executive or legislative branches, have no enumerated power to do any of these things: Therefore, under the 10th Amendment…
Unconstitutional: Appeals Court Tosses Ban on Handgun Sales to Adults Under Age 21
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/01/30/unconstitutional-court-tosses-ban-on-handgun-sales-to-adults-under-21-n2185014
– Circuit Court of Appeals marked the first time a federal appeals court has held that the prohibition violated the right to keep and … Appeals Court to Rule on Whether Illegal Aliens Have the Right to Keep and Bear ArmsThis is a serious win for the Second Amendment … days, then one should have all of the rights and privileges of adulthood.This case, in addition to being a win for the Second Amendment…
A Cure for Trump Derangement Syndrome
https://redstate.com/jerrywilson/2025/01/31/a-cure-for-trump-derangement-syndrome-n2185027
– First, presenting the finest in Christian rock and pop from then and now. … This also makes his words to Timothy all the more interesting.I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession … The authors of the United States Constitution understood this and made provision for the same in the First Amendment, declaring it…
Friday Morning Minute: I Don't Feel No Ways Tired
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2025/01/31/friday-morning-minute-i-dont-feel-no-ways-tired-n2185032
–  Full Court Press...The Fifth Circuit issued a significant Second Amendment ruling Thursday, finding a U.S. government ban on … It's been gratifying to see him not only energized but focused — and clearly having learned quite a bit from his first term and his…
The Foster Care System Should Never Place Ideology Over Child Welfare
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/08/08/the-foster-care-system-should-never-place-ideology-over-child-welfare-n789578
– that the state is openly discriminating against a couple solely because of their religious beliefs seems to be a violation of their First … Amendment rights.…
Former FOX News, now CBS Reporter Catherine Herridge Ordered by Court to Reveal Sources in Possible Chinese Agent Story
https://redstate.com/jerrywilson/2023/08/08/former-fox-news…rt-to-reveal-sources-in-possible-chinese-agent-story-n789189
– Asserting the First Amendment’s qualified privilege for journalists, and urging the Court to adopt a federal common law newsgathering … binding case law of this Circuit, the Court concludes that Chen’s need for the requested evidence overcomes Herridge’s qualified First … Amendment privilege in this case.…
Alan Dershowitz Savages Justice Department’s Dirty Tactics Against Trump
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/08/07/alan-dershowitz-savages-justice-departments-dirty-tactics-against-trump-n789091
– “He has a First Amendment right — and we have a First Amendment right — to know what’s in the documents,” Dershowitz said. … himself by his online behavior, but this does not excuse Smith trying to exploit the situation to violate the former president’s First … Amendment rights, as Dershowitz argued.…
Trump Attorney John Lauro and Dana Bash Spar Over Press Freedom and Speech vs. Action on CNN's 'State of the Union'
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2023/08/06/trump-attorney-john…edom-and-speech-vs-action-on-cnns-state-of-the-union-n788589
– John Lauro: Well, first of all, this protective order that’s being suggested by the Biden administration is an effort to keep from … Amendment rights, now these prosecutors are trying to infringe on the freedom of the press. … Amendment rights vigorously in court.…
Dershowitz Points to Big 'Lie' in Jack Smith's Indictment Against Trump
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/08/05/dershowitz-points-to-big-lie-in-jack-smiths-indictment-against-trump-n788091
– In an interview with Larry Kudlow, Dershowitz also pointed out how it could be dangerous to the Sixth Amendment as well. … [T]his is a very, very dangerous indictment, dangerous to the First Amendment and also dangerous to the Sixth Amendment because it…
Alabama Library Cancels Kirk Cameron's 'See You at the Library' Event Citing Capacity Issues, Then Reverses Course
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2023/08/04/madison-huntsvill…ry-event-citing-capacity-issues-then-reverses-course-n787895
– So, this last-minute cancelation could be construed as discrimination and a violation of Cameron’s and Brave Books First Amendment … The law firm representing Brave Books, First Liberty Institute, responded to the cancellation with a letter on Thursday, which the  … Amendment to the U.S.…
Donald Trump Pleads Not Guilty to Jack Smith's Bogus Federal Charges, Says 'This is the Persecution of a Political Opponent'
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2023/08/03/donald-trump-plea…says-this-is-the-persecution-of-a-political-opponent-n787199
– Jonathan Turley said, it’s “the first criminal indictment of alleged disinformation in my view,” and, “If you take a red pen to all … of the material presumptively protected by the First Amendment, you can reduce much of the indictment to haiku.”…
Democrats, Hysteria, and 'Threats to Democracy'
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/08/03/democrats-hysteria-and-threats-to-democracy-n786998
– First, the constitutional issues: To put it simply, Congress can’t do this. … general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States… The 16th Amendment … like the House of Representatives, and some distinctly non-democratic institutions, like the Senate, whose (original, pre-17th Amendment…
Be Ready: The Authoritarian Left Is Increasingly Using the Government to Suppress Free Speech
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/08/02/be-ready-the-authorita…asingly-using-the-government-to-suppress-free-speech-n786736
– And there’s nothing that’s more protected under the First Amendment than political speech,” the lawyer said during an interview. … But the left has essentially jettisoned all pretense of caring about the First Amendment – especially when it comes to those who disagree…
Leah Remini Files Lawsuit Against Church of Scientology and Leader Miscavige
https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2023/08/02/leah-remini-files…t-against-church-of-scientology-and-leader-miscavige-n786502
– Remini says that she is being barred from “exercising her First Amendment right and moral duty to speak out about Scientology’s conduct…
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