Results for First Amendment

  1. Senator Rubio's Stellar Defense Of The Second Amendment [VIDEO] https://redstate.com/streiff/2015/12/07/senator-rubios-stellar-defense-second-amendment-video-n55401
    For the first time we have several candidates who do not go into the fetal position when they think they may have to make a stand based … should watch some of it to see how well Rubio handles this issue when faced with a panel of three interviewers who are not Second Amendment … And, again, now your Second Amendment right is being impeded with,” he added.…
  2. Historical Roots of the Second Amendment https://redstate.com/davenj1/2018/07/07/historical-roots-second-amendment-n91944
    Google “repeal the Second Amendment” and you get almost 2.5 million hits.  … North Carolina and Rhode Island held out until it was guaranteed by amendment.  … Again, both, like the final language of the Second Amendment, refer to individual rights.…
  3. Marquette University Ordered To Reinstate Professor Fired for Opinions Written on His Personal Blog https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/07/06/marquette-university…nstate-professor-fired-opinions-written-personal-blog-n91918
    McAdam’s contract undercuts that entire argument: Though Marquette is a private, Roman Catholic institution not bound by the First … Amendment, the university promises faculty “the full and free enjoyment of legitimate personal or academic freedoms,” and it explicitly…
  4. Maxine Waters Is NOT Responsible for Jerk Who Attacked Texas Teen https://redstate.com/tladuke/2018/07/06/maxine-waters-not-responsible-jerk-attacked-texas-teen-n91903
    We need to stand guard and protect the First Amendment as diligently as we do the Second.…
  5. Don't tell me how you have 'left the Right' when you were never a conservative in the first place. https://redstate.com/kentucky_dana/2018/07/05/dont-tell-left-right-never-conservative-first-place-n91870
    Trump fell short, he would vote against a Republican nominee for the first time in his life. … ceremonies they personally or religiously found repugnant, government preferences based on race would be continued, our Second Amendment … place. __________________________ Cross-posted on The First Street Journal. __________________________ ¹ – Wikipedia article on Miss…
  6. As Independence Day approaches, it is the Trump Administration defending individual rights and the Constitution https://redstate.com/kentucky_dana/2018/07/03/independence-d…ministration-defending-individual-rights-constitution-n91839
    It has been 25 years since Justice Powell first approved the use of race to further an interest in student body diversity in the context … (“Title VI . . . proscribe[s] only those racial classifications that would violate the Equal Protection Clause or the Fifth Amendment … As a survey of college students discovered, when asked “Does the First Amendment protect hate speech?”…
  7. For Some Reason We're Supposed to Believe the Southern Poverty Law Center Settling a Defamation Suit Is Bad for Conservative Speech https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/07/03/reason-supposed-beli…nter-settling-defamation-suit-bad-conservative-speech-n91822
    unless he’s writing about anything vaguely connected to Trump: One of the most basic principles of defamation law, mandated by the First … Amendment, is that pure opinion can’t be defamatory. … An opinion, however moronic or unfair, is absolutely protected by the First Amendment unless it implies that the speaker is relying…
  8. We Still Have Work To Do Restoring The First Amendment. What's Missing In The Masterpiece Cake Shop Ruling https://redstate.com/aceintx/2018/07/02/still-work-restoring…amendment-whats-missing-masterpiece-cake-shop-ruling-n91772
    First, the ruling. … Amendment speech component and implicates his deep and sincere religious beliefs. … (c) For these reasons, the Commission’s treatment of Phillips’ case violated the State’s duty under the First Amendment not to base…
  9. Settled Law...Isn’t https://redstate.com/darth641/2018/07/02/settled-law-isnt-n91771
    I’ll quickly address the second point first. … —Dred Scott, redecided by a war and a Constitutional Amendment.…
  10. DHS Press Release Hides Secret Nazi Message https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/07/01/dhs-press-release-hides-secret-nazi-n91762
    But if we put a one in front of that 555 feet, we get 1555, the year that our first fathers landed on the shores of Jamestown, Virginia … [Fact Check: The first permanent English in North America, Jamestown, was founded in 1607. … As everyone knows, 16 and 7 are 23 which refers to the Twenty Third Amendment.]…
  11. Lies, damned lies and statistics. Using bogus numbers trashes the entire New York Times article. https://redstate.com/kentucky_dana/2018/07/01/lies-damned-li…g-bogus-numbers-trashes-entire-new-york-times-article-n91745
    In Janus, the court ruled, on First Amendment grounds, that public-sector employees who do not join their workplace’s labor union cannot … Why, how dare people actually support the First Amendment rights of individuals over the good of the Collective. … Lying about the numbers takes their entire case and throws it in the trash. ______________________________ Cross-posted on The First…
  12. New York Times Declares That Conservatives Take Unfair Advantage of the First Amendment https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/06/30/new-york-times-decla…s-conservatives-take-unfair-advantage-first-amendment-n91720
    This trend of conservatives winning Supreme Court cases on First Amendment grounds has caught the attention, and ire, or the New York … Behold: How Conservatives Weaponized the First Amendment. … Conservative groups, borrowing and building on arguments developed by liberals, have used the First Amendment to justify unlimited…
  13. Trump vs. Dems, 2020: Putting the 'Um' in 'Pendulum' https://redstate.com/alexparker/2018/07/19/trump-vs-dems-2020-putting-the-um-in-pendulum-n92338
    , a former Obama advisor’s prediction for Trump’s family reunification executive order, and so-called political correctness, the First … Amendment, and job security.…
  14. Trump Administration Takes an Important Step to Curb IRS Abuses https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/07/18/trump-administration-takes-important-step-curb-irs-abuses-n92303
    In this country, good government means protecting citizens’ First Amendment rights to participate in the competition of ideas – not…
  15. The Water Cooler Open Thread- July 17, 2018: Yep, More Culture War Insanity https://redstate.com/davenj1/2018/07/17/water-cooler-open-thread-july-17-2018-yep-culture-war-insanity-n92215
    The first involved Steve Bannon who was apparently accosted by some woke individual while he perused the shelves of a Richmond bookstore … So Russian collusion, obstruction of justice, the Emoluments Clause, the 25th Amendment, the #Resistance, and manufactured crises haven…
  16. Trump's SCOTUS Pick: Elizabeth Warren, the Left, and the Tired Jokes of Outrage and Fear https://redstate.com/alexparker/2018/07/13/elizabeth-warren-trump-scotus-kavanaugh-msnbc-n92057
    This is MSNBC; the viewers don’t know what’s going on in the first place. … anti-consumer zealot, an opponent of preexisting condition protections, a critic of abortion rights and access to contraception, a Second Amendment … Oh — and there is no such legal distinction as an “assault weapon;” nevertheless: Brett Kavanaugh is a true Second Amendment radical…
  17. The Left's Awkwardly Weak Attacks on Brett Kavanaugh Expose Their Desperation Against Trump https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2018/07/11/lefts-attacks-brett-kavanaugh-excruciatingly-weak-n92008
    https://t.co/BdFeE35naL — Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) July 11, 2018 He’s also very big on the Second Amendment, arguably … First, the abortion advocacy group NARAL declared that they would be damned — DAMNED I say! … It’s a sign of pure desperation to attack a man’s first name, especially when that first name is a typical one.…
  18. Sarah Palin Gets Duped by Sacha Baron Cohen https://redstate.com/tladuke/2018/07/11/sarah-palin-gets-duped-sacha-baron-cohen-n92003
    The First Amendment allows us wide latitude in these matters and I’m glad it does.…
  19. Fusion GPS Ordered By Judge To Answer Questions About Role in Dossier Creation https://redstate.com/slee/2018/07/26/fusion-gps-ordered-judge-answer-questions-role-dossier-creation-n92671
    claimed that revealing details about its dossier work would violate its confidentiality clauses with its clients as well as its First … Amendment rights to political free speech. … Ungaro rejected Fusion’s argument by saying its client relationships “are not protected from disclosure by the First Amendment even…
  20. The Trump White House Didn't Set a Precedent By Booting a CNN Reporter, They Observed It https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/07/26/trump-white-house-didnt-set-precedent-booting-cnn-reporter-observed-n92656
    Banning @kaitlancollins for asking legitimate questions is thuggish and contrary to the spirit of the First Amendment. https://t.co … /l5FzfVN5pG — jonkarl (@jonkarl) July 26, 2018 Literally, the First Amendment doesn’t mention the Executive Branch. … Literally, the First Amendment doesn’t require any part of the government to give any information to the press.…
  21. RedState's Watercooler, 7/25 Open Thread: Drill Of The Month https://redstate.com/diamondback/2018/07/25/redstates-watercooler-725-open-thread-drill-month-n92602
    🙂   Last Week In History Sunday, 7/15: Pike Expedition sets out, 1806; Ford takes first car order, 1903; Nixon announces China … Kennedy Jr., 1915; first “test-tube baby” Louise Brown, 1978. … – I get $10 in store credit after your first order ships.…
  22. BREAKING. Ninth Circuit Just Made a Second Amendment Ruling That Will Leave You Shaking Your Head https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/07/24/breaking-ninth-circu…made-second-amendment-ruling-will-leave-shaking-head-n92583
    has just ruled that the right to openly carry a firearm for the purpose of self-defense is a protected activity under the Second Amendment … But, for better or for worse, the Second Amendment does protect a right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense. … They’ve been dodging Second Amendment cases but this one makes it hard.…
  23. Gun Expert John Lott: 'The Goal Of Eliminating Guns Is Ultimately A Fool’s Errand' https://redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2018/07/21/gun-expert…hn-lott-goal-eliminating-guns-ultimately-fools-errand-n92467
    In 2015, the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and DD sued the State Department arguing that “sharing instructions on how to make guns … This is an important victory for First Amendment rights.” … While this settlement is a victory for first amendment rights, it will be difficult, if not impossible, for the government to regulate…
  24. It's Time Everyone Understood the Difference Between Impeding Your Right to Free Speech, and a Business' Policy https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2018/07/20/time-everyone…ifference-impeding-right-free-speech-businesss-policy-n92406
    The First Amendment is probably my favorite of the amendments. … Phuk TRUMP — CJ (@Chapter12Wife) July 20, 2018 @NFL Support your player’s 1st Amendment Rights. … Playing the National Anthem while denying your players the right to exercise 1st Amendment Rights peacefully, goes against the National…
  25. New Brady Campaign Ad Attempts to Find Common Ground on "Family Fire" https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2018/08/08/new-brady-campaign-ad-attempts-find-common-ground-family-fire-n93179
    Their first ad, released today, is comprised of two versions – a two-minute one, and a 30-second ad spot. … On this issue they only partnered with anti-gun groups and excluded groups like the NRA, Second Amendment Foundation, Gun Owners of … America, Firearms Policy Coalition and others who advocate for Second Amendment rights AND who provide instruction on the safe use…