Results for: First Amendment

Alabama Passes Law Protecting Gun Owners From De Facto Private Sector Firearm Registry
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/05/14/alabama-passes-law-pro…wners-from-de-facto-private-sector-firearm-registry-n2174188
– Kay Ivey (R) signed into law the Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act on May 6. … Vice President & General Counsel, highlighted the law’s purpose, characterizing it as “a necessary tool to protect the Second Amendment … rights of legal gun owners.The NSSF also referred to an op-ed penned by New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin in which he first
Has 'Zuck' Struck Again? RFK Jr., Super PAC Sue Meta for Alleged Collusion With Gov't for Censorship
https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2024/05/14/has-zuck-struck-a…for-alleged-collusion-with-with-govt-for-censorship-n2174179
– The suit claims Meta violated First Amendment rights and committed election interference by censoring a biographical film on Kennedy … Kennedy Jr. and American Values 2024, a political action committee supporting his campaign, filed a First Amendment and election interference…
Alabama Mercedes-Benz Plant Rejects UAW, Supports Right-to-Work
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2024/05/17/alabama-mercedes-benz-plant-rejects-uaw-supports-right-to-work-n2174337
– SB231) that removes economic development incentives offered by the state from companies that voluntarily recognize any union without first …  While UAW may have succeeded in Tennessee, in 2022, the state enshrined right-to-work in its Constitution through Amendment 1…
Delaware Passes Ridiculous Gun Control Law and Immediately Gets Sued
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/05/18/delaware-passes-ridiculous-gun-control-law-and-immediately-gets-sued-n2174363
– handguns on behalf of those prohibited by law from possessing them.Shortly after Carney signed the legislation, a coalition of Second Amendment … Sportsmen's Association Inc. and Bridgeville Rifle and Pistol Club, argues that the fundamental civil rights of lawful gun owners in the First … It is a clear violation of the Second Amendment that will do nothing to save lives from gun violence.…
NYT Columnist Claims Pro-Hamas Protesters Are 'Principled.' They Are Anything But.
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/05/19/nyt-columnist-claims-p…mas-protesters-are-principled-they-are-anything-but-n2174372
– And though they are educated to participate in civic life, as soon as these students exercise their First Amendment rights, they are…
Your Ability to Remain Free Rests in Your Willingness to Win the Information War
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2024/05/08/your-ability-t…willingness-to-maintain-a-free-flow-of-information-n2173914
– The first is that we have a press that isn't reporting the news, but a narrative. … They're finding new ways to curtail your First Amendment rights every day, and at some point, those lines on that old piece of paper…
NY Judge Orders Removal of Proposed Constitutional Amendment Protecting Abortion From State Ballot
https://redstate.com/mdempsey/2024/05/08/ny-justice-orders-r…l-amendment-protecting-abortion-off-ny-state-ballot-n2173922
– On Tuesday, a judge in Livingston County, New York ordered the removal of a proposed constitutional amendment that would protect and …  One week after the proposed amendment was introduced, it was passed on July 1st, 2022. … You have to introduce the amendment, wait for the opinion to come down,” he said.…
Open Carry v. Concealed Carry: Situational and Political Arguments
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/05/06/open-carry-v-concealed-carry-situational-and-political-arguments-n2173824
– So it's not surprising that the open-carry v. concealed-carry discussion has fired up again in the Second Amendment community, not … Nothing in the Second Amendment says that the manner in which someone chooses to bear arms.I won't re-hash everything Tom said; he … I don't want him to see that I'm packing and decide, "I'm shooting that guy first."…
Florida School Shuts Down Christian Club After Complaint From Rabid Atheist Zealots
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/05/08/florida-school-shuts-d…ian-club-after-complaint-from-rabid-atheist-zealots-n2173930
– ensure that the FCA club at Hamilton Elementary is disbanded.”The organization also argued that students at the school “have the First … “Students have the First Amendment right to be free from religious indoctrination in their public schools. … “The Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized that students’ religious viewpoints are protected by the First Amendment and that students…
President Biden Should Drop Charges Against Julian Assange
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/05/20/president-biden-should-drop-charges-against-julian-assange-n2174437
– should not accept the assurances given by U.S. prosecutors that he could seek to rely on the rights and protections under the US First … of the government.Nevertheless, Assange’s actions should fall under the type of journalistic activities that are protected by the FirstAmendment.…
SCOTUS Chastises Lower Courts in Online Speech Law Cases, Sends Them Back
https://redstate.com/jimthompson/2024/07/01/scotus-chastises…r-courts-in-online-speech-law-cases-sends-them-back-n2175965
Amendment merits, because neither Court of Appeals properly considered the facial nature of NetChoice’s challenge. … In a facial challenge, that could well matter, even when the challenge is brought under the First Amendment. … But that work must be done consistent with the First Amendment, which does not go on leave when social media are involved.As background…
Newsom's 'Hail Mary' Proposition to Neuter the Reform Prop 47 Ballot Initiative Goes to the Legislature
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2024/07/01/newsoms-hail-mary…e-prop-47-ballot-initiative-goes-to-the-legislature-n2176215
– measure on the ballot that would counter the reform prop 47 measure that has already qualified.The counter measure “would be the first … Proposition 47 needed change and neither has commented yet on the effort to put together the competing initiative, which KCRA 3 first …   Here’s Election Code section 9040: “Every constitutional amendment, bond measure, or other legislative measure submitted to…
Federal Judge Slams Department of Education's Bizarre Interpretation of Title IX and Transgenderism
https://redstate.com/streiff/2024/07/03/federal-judge-slams…zarre-interpretation-of-title-ix-and-transgenderism-n2176327
– the rule because of the Major Questions Doctrine, 3) the rule violates the Constitution's spending clause 4) the rule violates the FirstAmendment because it is impermissibly vague and overbroad, and, finally, 5) the rule violates the Administrative Procedure Act because …  Speech First, Inc. v.…
Meanwhile in Delaware: The Battle of 'Supplemental Authority' Rages On in Hunter Biden's Gun Case
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2024/07/04/meanwhile-in-delawa…mental-authority-rages-on-in-hunter-bidens-gun-case-n2176371
– The June conviction of First Son Hunter Biden on gun charges in federal court in Delaware came as a surprise not because the evidence …  Supreme Court Declines to Toss 2nd Amendment Restrictionsin Certain Domestic Violence CasesOpinion: SCOTUS Once Again Ignores … that several other "GVRs" issued by the Court on the same day involved lower court decisions that had, in fact, rejected Second Amendment
The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act Has Been a Massive Failure
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/06/28/the-bipartisan-safer-communities-act-has-been-a-massive-failure-n2176062
First, do we know they were truly prevented from buying a firearm or did they go to the black market and get one after being denied … passed, it was abundantly clear that it was not going to save lives, nor would it respect the Second Amendment. … Sure, it wasn’t the sweeping gun restrictions President Joe Biden wanted when he first came into office, but it was something.The law…
The Supreme Court Firebombs the Administrative State and Tells Congress to Get Off Its Butt and Work
https://redstate.com/streiff/2024/06/28/the-supreme-court-fi…ate-and-tells-congress-to-get-off-its-butt-and-work-n2176118
– The first of these was Snyder vs. US. … social media outlets to censor content the government doesn't like was disappointing.BACKGROUND: BREAKING: Supreme Court Deals FirstAmendment Blow in Murthy v.…
The Skinny on SCOTUS - 6-28-24 Edition: On Chevron, J6, and Unhappy Campers
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2024/06/28/the-skinny-on-scotus-6-28-24-edition-n2176123
– Circuit, First Circuit Basic Facts:The Court granted certiorari in these cases limited to the question whether Chevron U. S. … behalf of homeless people living in Grants Pass, claiming that the city’s ordinances against public camping violated the Eighth Amendment … generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property constitute "cruel and unusual punishment" prohibited by the Eighth Amendment
Supreme Court Rules Homeless Do Not Have a Right to Camp on Public Property
https://redstate.com/streiff/2024/06/28/supreme-court-rules…less-do-not-have-a-right-to-camp-on-public-property-n2176108
– The question this case presents is whether the Eighth Amendment grants federal judges primary responsibility for assessing those causes … The Constitution’s Eighth Amendment serves many important functions, but it does not authorize federal judges to wrest those rights … homeless people from Grants Pass, OR, contending that city's ordinance forbidding camping on public property violated the Eighth Amendment
Identity Politics Biting Dems As Harris Allies Bristle Over Possible 'White' Biden Replacement Candidates
https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2024/07/02/identity-politics…le-over-possible-white-biden-replacement-candidates-n2176261
– .— CJ Pearson (@thecjpearson) July 1, 2024After the debate, Newsom was one of the first to come out and defend Joe Biden. … know.The Harris inner circle may be getting as big a dose of reality, just like many Americans who saw Joe Biden's condition for the first … If they jettison Joe via the 25th Amendment, Kamala Harris loses to Donald Trump handily.…
Opinion: SCOTUS Once Again Ignores the Second Amendment by Opting for Inaction on 13 Cases
https://redstate.com/mdempsey/2024/07/02/scotus-once-again-i…the-second-amendment-by-taking-inaction-on-12-cases-n2176279
– Officially, the Supreme Court took action today on 13 cases regarding the Second Amendment. … Whether “the people” must convince government officials of their “good moral character” before exercising their Second Amendment right … California's "large capacity magazine" ban was first signed into law almost 24 years ago, yet the several lawsuits that challenged…
Hunter Biden's Legal Team Makes Swift Use of Supreme Court Decision
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2024/06/30/hunter-bidens-legal-team-makes-swift-use-of-supreme-court-decision-n2176184
– Court the last week of June, but Hunter Biden's legal team is already availing itself of one of the rulings in an effort to have the First … In the first place, unlike Snyder where nobody has a right to give or accept a gratuity, Mr. … Biden’s conduct implicates his constitutional Second Amendment rights. Nevertheless, Mr.…
Monday Morning Minute
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2024/07/01/monday-morning-minute-n2176214
– There's a pair of cases involving the First Amendment and the states of Texas and Florida's attempts to restrict content moderation … by online platforms (the NetChoice cases), one involving when a claim first accrues under the Administrative Procedure Act (Corner…
AOC UNLEASHED: Socialist Firebrand to File Impeachment Articles Against... The Supreme Court?
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/07/01/aoc-unleashed-soci…file-impeachment-articles-against-the-supreme-court-n2176236
First of all, I would say to the Congresswoman, "Alexandria, please, America is not and never has been a democracy; find someone who … has the final say in these matters by design; they judge laws against the Constitution and, excepting only the constitutional amendment
The Skinny on SCOTUS - 7-1-24 Edition: Immunity Has Entered the Chat
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2024/07/01/the-skinny-on-scotus-7-1-24-edition-n2176221
Amendment challenges against the two laws. … The court held that the State’s restrictions on content moderation trigger First Amendment scrutiny under this Court’s cases protecting … In that court’s view, the platforms’ content-moderation activities are “not speech” at all, and so do not implicate the First Amendment
Can't Make This Stuff Up: Hunter Biden Is Suing Fox Over 'Revenge Porn'
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2024/07/01/cant-make-this-stuff-up-hunter-biden-is-suing-fox-over-revenge-porn-n2176247
– Nevertheless, the First Son is, indeed, suing Fox News Channel over a 2022 miniseries streamed by the network.In a lawsuit filed Monday … Consistent with the First Amendment, FOX News has accurately covered the newsworthy events of Mr.…
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