Results for First Amendment

  1. Antifa Violently Attack a Christian Worship Service, and Then the Story Gets So Much Worse https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/05/25/antifa-violently-att…rvice-who-the-seattle-mayor-blamed-will-disgust-you-n2189570
     While there are broad First Amendment requirements around permitting events under free speech protections, I am directing the…
  2. NPR and PBS Stations Sue Trump Administration for Cutting Their Federal Funding https://redstate.com/tladuke/2025/05/27/npr-and-pbs-stations…mp-administration-for-cutting-their-federal-funding-n2189651
    against NPR and fellow public broadcaster PBS earlier this month barring the use of Congressionally appropriated funds violated the First … Amendment, it said.Not everyone agrees, oddly enough, with El Presidente 45 & 47.Patricia Harrison, CPB's president and CEO, said…
  3. GOP Rep Announces Probe Into Nashville Mayor Regarding Alleged Actions Related to ICE https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/05/28/nashville-mayor-probe-n2189703
    House Judiciary Committee, I will be formally requesting all documents and communications from the Mayor’s office related to:– The amendment … of Executive Order 30—an outrageous directive requiring Nashville employees and first responders to report all… pic.twitter.com/BGv8uocsTk … of Executive Order 30—an outrageous directive requiring Nashville employees and first responders to report all communication with…
  4. In a Public Broadcasting Paradox, PBS, NPR Demand to Be Both Independent and Government-Subsidized https://redstate.com/bradslager/2025/05/08/public-broadcast…owance-in-the-call-to-be-left-alone-and-independent-n2188853
     But what Capehart is leaning on is the vacuous claim that this call to defund is a First Amendment violation, while it is nothing … That is an affront to the First Amendment. We have an independent newsroom, and we will always have an independent newsroom. … From my perspective, part of the separation of the First Amendment offers is to keep government out.…
  5. Mommy Needs a Valium: NPR CEO Says Trump Defunding Order a Violation of First Amendment Rights https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2025/05/04/trump-eo-defunding-npr-has-its-ceo-in-a-twist-n2188681
    Then Maher, who could not have cared less about the First Amendment when NPR whistleblower Uri Berliner pulled back the curtain on … the news organization, now cares about First Amendment rights being violated.This is not about balancing the federal budget. …  As our sister site Townhall wrote:Of course, NPR responded by making it a free speech and First Amendment issue. It’s not.…
  6. MSNBC, CNN Caught Lying About Anti-ICE Riots to an Alarming Extent https://redstate.com/katie-jerkovich/2025/06/16/msnbc-cnn-caught-lying-about-anti-ice-riots-alarming-amount-n2190560
    responsible for the gaslighting 88 times compared to CNN, which was responsible for making the false claims 123 times.During the first … Donald Trump referred to those peaceful protestors exercising their First Amendment rights as insurrectionists.…
  7. The Bill Is Due: 'Mostly Peaceful' Anti-ICE Riots Rack Up Huge Costs for Los Angeles https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/06/17/the-bill-is-due-most…l-anti-ice-riots-rack-up-huge-costs-for-los-angeles-n2190581
    to Storm Federal BuildingThe Democrats will continue to downplay the ongoing riots and portray them as just folks enjoying their First … Amendment rights. … What they’ll ignore is that the First Amendment doesn’t say you can attack law enforcement officers.…
  8. Obama Wants to See More ‘Pushback,’ Warns America Is Teetering on the Edge of Autocracy https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/06/18/obama-wants-to-s…warns-america-is-teetering-on-the-edge-of-autocracy-n2190624
    Inflame Leftists Ahead of 'No Kings Day' on ICE Sweeps in LA; DHS Shuts That DownMichelle Obama Is Back, Complains About Her Time As First … We get that Obama thinks the biggest scandal of his time was wearing a tan suit, but reality suggests otherwise.In his first week in … Amendment and Freedom of the Press by seizing the records of reporters at Fox News and the Associated Press (AP).…
  9. Elon Musk's X Sues New York Over Law Requiring Disclosure of 'Hate Speech' Content Moderation Practices https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2025/06/18/meanwhile-musks…equiring-disclosure-of-content-moderation-practices-n2190632
    Amendment protects — regardless of whether New York Democrat lawmakers, and of course Kathy Hochul, like it or not. …  First, from New York state Sen. … That patently violates the First Amendment which is why X is taking the state to court.The valid argument — as was decided in the earlier-mentioned…
  10. The Press Shows Signs of Desperation in Its Coverage of Democrat Politicians' Anti-ICE Protests https://redstate.com/bradslager/2025/06/18/the-desperation-i…needs-to-recalibrate-crimes-by-democrat-politicians-n2190643
     It is clear that the driving force in the press is holding President Trump accountable, but the problem is that they need first … aggressive; pulling down tariffs the press screamed about is not proper but a sign of weakness; preventing riots and looting is a First … Amendment violation, and on it goes.…
  11. Galling CNN Panel Puts the Left's Issues With Antisemitism on Full Display https://redstate.com/bradslager/2025/06/03/cnn-panel-manages…o-many-of-the-issues-the-left-has-with-antisemitism-n2189972
    She tried to suggest that antisemitism rose under his first term, but this is pure desperation, as it does nothing to explain how his … So the response was to make the strained claim that Trump was fostering antisemitism during his first term in office. … Blocking Jewish students, harassing and attacking them, and calling for the eradication of Israel were deemed First Amendment issues…
  12. Why We Fight—Smuggled N. Korean Cellphone Shows Staggering Ways Kim Jong Un Controls Citizens https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/06/03/why-we-fight-censors…shows-staggering-ways-kim-jong-un-controls-citizens-n2189991
    The revelations serve as a warning of what could happen here in the United States if we don’t fiercely protect our First Amendment…
  13. 'Botched' South Carolina Execution Draws Scrutiny https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/05/10/botched-south-carolina-execution-draws-scrutiny-n2188906
     First, anti-death penalty lawyers have pushed hard to create a doctrine that says executions must produce instantaneous, painless … The Supreme Court ruled that the Eighth Amendment did not apply and the state was entitled to another go, and this time, it was successful …  Things change, and our imperial judiciary has expanded the clear meaning of the Eighth Amendment into something no one would…
  14. When Media Defenders Behind the World Press Freedom Index Also Deliver Misinformation, You Need to Laugh https://redstate.com/bradslager/2025/05/10/when-media-defend…index-also-deliver-misinformation-you-need-to-laugh-n2188904
    Unsurprisingly the European countries dominate their list, with the first non-Euro entrant seen at #16, New Zealand. … this idiocy:_________After a century of gradual expansion of press rights in the United States, the country is experiencing its first … That is a detail we are never told, nor are we told of this other jeopardy.The First Amendment to the US Constitution provides broad…
  15. SNL Actually Knocks Another One Out of the Park, This Time With the Founding Fathers https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2025/05/13/snl-actually-k…out-of-the-park-this-time-with-the-founding-fathers-n2189015
    After they complete the First Amendment, they start asking which right they should move onto next.Enter Walton Goggins' character " … The Founding Father at the desk asks what posterity will say if they simply enshrine "guns" as the Second Amendment. … You know... what it was supposed to be doing in the first place.…
  16. An Administrator With Violent Ambitions and a Rural School District Captured by the Progressive Movement https://redstate.com/chase-spears/2024/10/01/a-warning-from…chool-district-captured-by-the-progressive-movement-n2179988
    Similarly, Carroll did not lay aside his First Amendment rights in order to take a leadership position in the Graham ISD. … John James at Bellarmine University was suspended for tweeting, “If you’re gonna shoot, man, don’t miss,” in reference also to the first…
  17. Joe Biden's Legacy and the Ultimate American Betrayal https://redstate.com/mdempsey/2025/05/29/president-biden-and-the-ultimate-american-betrayal-n2189756
    Republicans had been mulling over whether or not to invoke the 25th Amendment for years, though no serious attempt was made to do so … Then came the first presidential debate with President Trump, which ended in disaster for Biden. … Former First Lady Jill Biden, in my opinion, was fully complicit in possible elder abuse and covering it up.…
  18. Becoming a Libertarian and Why I Left the Republican Party https://redstate.com/mdempsey/2025/05/29/becoming-a-libertarian-and-why-i-left-the-republican-party-n2189178
     My first metric when legislation is introduced is always to determine if it is Constitutional. … The 10th Amendment is clear; abortion is and always will be a state’s rights issue. … I can say what I want, when I want, because the 1st Amendment says I can.…
  19. Critics Offer Reality Check After NPR Sues Trump, CEO Insists It Is 'Non-Partisan' https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/05/29/maher-remarks-about-npr-suit-n2189792
    Amendment RightsShe went on PBS on Wednesday. … She was asked by Geoff Bennett how the order was violating the First Amendment. Her answer was unintentionally more problematic. …  🚨NPR Chief Katherine Maher: Trump defunding Executive Order is “retaliation” — violates the First Amendment due to “viewpoint…
  20. AZ Gov. Hobbs Makes Truly Head-Scratching Decision on China Owning Property Near US Bases https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/06/04/az-gov-hobbs-makes-t…ing-decision-on-china-owning-property-near-us-bases-n2190043
    excuse, though, because lawmakers had already made efforts to improve the measure.However, the bill went through a bipartisan amendment … does not directly protect our military assets.”Whatever Hobbs' motivations are, they rarely really seem to be about putting America first…
  21. Supremes Deliver a Big Win for Gunmakers in Smith & Wesson vs. Mexico https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/06/05/supremes-deliver-a…big-win-for-gunmakers-in-smith-and-wesson-vs-mexico-n2190072
    It's been a mixed year for Second Amendment advocates, but on Thursday, came a significant win from the Supreme Court on that front … However, the Court renders unanimous decisions rather more often than it might seem at first glance, perhaps because many of the more … This case has been followed closely by Second Amendment supporters and can only be seen as a win on that front, although it's certain…
  22. Biden's Doctor Found Him Fit to Be President - But Was He Fit to Be WH Doctor? https://redstate.com/andrewmalcolm/2025/07/17/this-white-house-doctor-said-he-was-fine-to-be-president-n2191688
    O'Connor's constitutional right under the Fifth Amendment to decline to incriminate himself.But then we must ask ourselves what exactly … Or even until the end of his first term, for that matter.Clearly, there was a massive cover-up of his serious deterioration by close…
  23. Report: Zuckerberg's Meta Acted to Quietly Quash Employee Workplace Discussions on Abortion in 2019 https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2022/05/20/report-zuckerbergs-m…h-employee-workplace-discussions-on-abortion-in-2019-n567702
    From Fortune: “As a general proposition, the First Amendment protects individuals only against government restrictions on speech, … ” says Len Niehoff, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School who teaches First Amendment law.…
  24. Progressives, Stop Using Black People to Lie About the Second Amendment https://redstate.com/jeffc/2022/05/19/progressives-stop-using-black-people-to-lie-about-the-second-amendment-n567065
    The article attempts to again argue that the Second Amendment is a racist law concocted by white supremacists to make it easier for … The first question Bates asks Anderson, who wrote an entire book claiming the Second Amendment has negatively affected the black community … That was so much of the genesis of the Second Amendment, that black people are a threat, that they are dangerous that they pose ill…
  25. Former Fox News Reporter Calls for Journalists to Be Jailed for 'Misinformation' https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/05/19/former-fox-news-repo…alls-for-journalists-to-be-jailed-for-misinformation-n566823
    Does the First Amendment just not exist anymore?…