Results for: First Amendment

Perennial Failed Candidate Christy Smith Attacks Rep. Mike Garcia as a "Seditious Representative"
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2021/01/08/perennial-failed…ttacks-rep-mike-garcia-as-a-seditious-representative-n306499
– Capitol — who breached the People’s House, the seat of our democracy, for the first time since the War of 1812 — are a stain on this … Amendment rights and voice their concerns about election fraud, saying they “represent…fascism, racism, demagoguery and neo-Nazism … Smith, an educator, clearly has forgotten a little bit of history since she asserts that Wednesday was the first time the Capitol had…
The Truth Shall Set You Free . . . From Your Job!
https://redstate.com/kentucky_dana/2019/07/19/truth-shall-set-free-job-n111207
– I am listed as the Editor on my website site, The First Street Journal, not because I have been trying to conceal my identity — after … The First Amendment guarantees that the government cannot prohibit us from speaking, but does not protect us from the consequences … My personal website, The First Street Journal, includes articles not necessarily in Red State’s paradigm.…
'It's the End of Democracy as We Know It!'
https://redstate.com/vladimir/2012/06/08/its-the-end-of-democracy-as-we-know-it-n43437
– Where in the First Amendment does it say that you have a right not to assemble? Oh, by the way, pay your dues.…
Saxby Chambliss Does the Right Thing, Re: SWATting
https://redstate.com/ironchapman/2012/06/06/saxby-chambliss-does-the-right-thing-re-swatting-n43413
– The perpetrators appear to be targeting individuals who are vigorously exercising their First Amendment rights to political speech……
The Big Labor Republicans
https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2012/06/01/the-big-labor-republicans-n43353
– The first amendment, which was sponsored by Pro-Big Labor Michael Grimm (R-NY), stripped language from the MilCon bill prohibiting … While only 34 Republicans supported the amendment, one must question why leadership approved the consideration of the amendment in … the first place. …
Sugarcoating the Cost of Special Interest Subsidies with Food Stamps
https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2012/06/14/sugarcoating-the-cost-of-special-interest-subsidies-with-food-stamps-n43492
– The first amendment, which was actually sponsored by Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, would gradually phase out sugar subsidies.  … 32 Democrats and 16 Republicans voted to table (kill) the amendment. … This amendment was also tabled 65-33, with every Democrat and 13 Republicans voting to kill it. So there you have it. …
Standing for Veterans, Their Families, and Religious Freedom
https://redstate.com/rjsantorum/2012/06/13/standing-for-veterans-their-families-and-religious-freedom-n43486
– I was deeply impacted when I saw first-hand the wounded and returning veterans.  … Upon further review, it was discovered that additional First Amendment violations at the Houston National Cemetery violated. …
The 911 Call and 80+ Members of Congress
https://redstate.com/erick/2012/06/11/the-911-call-and-80-members-of-congress-n43449
– SWAT-ting first arose in 2002, but as technology and the Internet has expanded, the dangers of SWAT-ting are also on the rise. … Amendment rights. … Amendment rights are held to the highest standard of the law.…
Reminder: the NRA will score Holder contempt vote.
https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2012/06/27/reminder-the-nra-will-score-holder-contempt-vote-n43599
– forward with this it wouldn’t have gone forward, and Boehner wouldn’t have let this gone forward if the votes weren’t there in the first … Jim Matheson of Utah is merely the first to break under the strain (via Hot Air). … the Baltimore Sun on Operation Fast & Furious is likewise entertaining, mostly because its title (“Fast and Furious: The Second Amendment
Tech at Night: The First Amendment shouldn't prevent regulation of the Internet?
https://redstate.com/neil_stevens/2012/06/26/tech-at-night-t…amendment-shouldnt-prevent-regulation-of-the-internet-n43589
– Hope you’re ready to move on from Barack Obama, His administration thinks the First Amendment is an obstacle to greater government … This of course turns the First Amendment on its head. … I guess in the Democrat parallel world Tim Wu and Barack Obama inhabit, the amendment says “Congress shall make no law… unless we really…
Farm/Food Stamp Bill Vote Tally
https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2012/06/21/farmfood-stamp-bill-vote-tally-n43564
– That way you can easily track how your member voted on every consequential bill or amendment. … Our first release is the Farm Bill.  Nothing embodies the “red state statist” problem more than farm and energy subsidies.  … This is especially true with the 12 annual appropriations bills, in which the open amendment process in the House (thank you Speaker…
On this "Natural Born Citizen" Issue, Part II: From William Learned Marcy to Wong Kim Ark
https://redstate.com/ironchapman/2012/06/21/on-this-natural…ue-part-ii-from-william-learned-marcy-to-wong-kim-ark-n43563
First of all, this quote was given in the context of whether this amendment applied to Indians not taxed. … This understanding is also confirmed by the congressional debates surrounding the Fourteenth Amendment. … As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first. …
Tax Cuts for the Rich – Bad; Subsidies – Good
https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2012/06/20/tax-cuts-for-the-rich-bad-subsidies-good-n43549
– Accordingly, one would expect Democrats to be the first ones to issue garrulous protestations against farm handouts for the rich.  … Yesterday, Senator Rand Paul offered an amendment to deny access to farm programs for those with an AGI of over $250,000 annually.  … Only 1 Democrat (Herb Kohl) in the entire Senate voted for this amendment.  Sadly, only 14 Republicans voted for it either.…
America vs. the Sugar Lobby
https://redstate.com/pat_toomey/2012/06/20/america-vs-the-sugar-lobby-n43548
– The first would eliminate the sugar program completely. … In a rare demonstration of bipartisan common-sense, this amendment almost survived a tabling motion last week by a margin of just four … This week, the Senate will vote on an alternative amendment that will reform the sugar program rather than eliminate it.…
Transportation Secretary Praises Murderous Communists as "More Successful"
https://redstate.com/erick/2012/07/05/transportation-secretary-praises-murderous-communists-as-more-successful-n43673
– child.Also in China, unlike the United States, the 3 men in China are able to kill dissidents exercises what we hick Americans call our “firstAmendment rights.”But truth be told, in the United States, there are actually only 535 men and women who make decisions, with one…
The Foundational Freedom
https://redstate.com/rjsantorum/2012/07/04/the-foundational-freedom-n43660
– The First Amendment of our Constitution protects the individual exercise of religion. … Our First Amendment begins by limiting the scope of governmental authority over religious matters: “Congress shall make no law respecting … Instead, being a government of limited, enumerated powers, the First Amendment creates a space of autonomy wherein religious institutions…
The Truth. It Hurts.
https://redstate.com/erick/2012/07/03/the-truth-it-hurts-n43646
– “[I]t’s a lot harder to undo something than it is to stop it in the first place,” he said in part.For once, let’s give McConnell the … In February, Mitch McConnell had the option of bringing Jim DeMint’s amendment to the floor of the Senate to force another vote on…
Republicans Help Grow HUD and Big Government
https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2012/07/02/republicans-help-grow-hud-and-big-government-n43643
– Again, this merely kept spending at FY 2012 levels for a program that shouldn’t exist in the first place. … This amendment merely keeps the spending in line with Obama’s budget request!  … The Flake amendment merely prevented the increase in funding from FY 2012 levels! Failed 178-242 [roll call #436]…
The Supreme Court's Disappointing Tax Ruling
https://redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2012/06/29/the-supreme-courts-disappointing-tax-ruling-n43631
– The Majority In theory, the powers of the federal government should be determined by examining first the Constitution’s text and … The very first power granted to Congress in Article I, Section 8, is the power to tax: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect … Clause, which remain unchanged from their original 1787 text, this aspect of the taxing power has been altered by the Sixteenth Amendment
Assessing The Wake of Legislative Hiroshima
https://redstate.com/mikehammond/2013/11/28/assessing-the-wake-of-legislative-hiroshima-n48255
FIRST: Take scalps. … The two central Second Amendment cases, Heller (holding that the Second Amendment applied to individuals and not just to the states … should be these: – First, a bill to repeal ObamaCare…
Protecting Email Privacy is First Step to Ending Unconstitutional Mass Surveillance
https://redstate.com/techfreedom/2013/12/11/protecting-email…rst-step-to-ending-unconstitutional-mass-surveillance-n48343
– ECPA isn’t a substitute for stopping blanket NSA surveillance, but it can actually happen this Congress — and it it would be the first … as it does to files on your computer, but an activist Supreme Court in the 1960s mucked up the law by holding that the Fourth Amendment … It may seem unfair that this is the first step in the surveillance battle.…
Obama’s Inequality Sophistry Is a Recipe for Misery
https://redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2013/12/10/obamas-inequality-sophistry-is-a-recipe-for-misery-n47449
– The 13th Amendment won’t allow us to enslave someone who literally refuses to raise a hand to his own betterment. … Schumpeter’s basic insight even further, it’s stating the obvious to assert that there are no companies, and no jobs, without investment first
Hyper-regulated lawlessness
https://redstate.com/jhayward13/2013/12/19/hyper-regulated-lawlessness-n47507
– His reform effort was thwarted by Democrats, who like to fill the “amendment tree” for bills with garbage so that nobody can attach … a serious amendment to bills they are determined to ram through. … We’ll decide whether an illegal alien rapist is to be incarcerated or deported, or maybe first one and then the other, but otherwise…
Ryan-Murray and the Fundamental Lack of Seriousness in Washington
https://redstate.com/erick/2013/12/19/ryan-murray-and-the-fundamental-lack-of-seriousness-in-washington-n47504
– But the House of Representatives passed the legislation first. … would have had to scramble back to Washington to repass the legislation they could have fixed the first time. … So why did they put the cuts in the legislation in the first place?…
2014: The Year of the Primaries
https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2013/12/17/2014-the-year-of-the-primaries-n47490
– But he voted for it in committee, and after conservatives almost killed it on the floor, he revived it with his phony amendment, which … But when they need to placate the special interests, they will jump in head first. …
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