Results for Second Amendment

  1. Supreme Court Poised to Okay First Ever Religious Charter School https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/05/01/supreme-court-poised-to-okay-first-ever-religious-charter-school-n2188550
    The ban is rooted in the anti-Catholic Blaine Amendment added to Oklahoma's constitution in 1907.This set up an interesting conflict … “You can’t treat religious people, and religious institutions, and religious speech as second-class in the United States,” Kavanaugh … First off, it will mean the thirty-eight Blaine Amendment states can no longer use that to block religious schools from applying for…
  2. What Is the Second Amendment and Why Is It Important Today? https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/05/01/what-is-the-second-amendment-and-why-is-it-important-today-n2188575
    Second Amendment guarantees us not only another fundamental natural right, but also guarantees us the means to protect those rights … While there are Supreme Court cases acknowledging that the Second Amendment describes the individual rights of the people, all that … I Have Some Ideas.Trump Stands Strong in Protecting Second Amendment After FSU Tragedy: ‘The Gun Doesn’t Do the Shooting’The Second…
  3. The Constitution Is Great, but Is It Perfect? I Have Some Ideas. https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/04/28/the-constitution-is-great-but-is-it-perfect-i-have-some-ideas-n2188422
     First, let's look at the legislative branch.For the Senate: Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment and return the selection of Senators … I have a few other ideas, too:Revise the Second Amendment to state: “The right of the people to keep and bear arms for defense of home … Amendment only applies to the National Guard!"…
  4. Concealed Carry Reciprocity: Congressional Republicans Are Trying Again https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/01/13/concealed-carry-re…iprocity-congressional-republicans-are-trying-again-n2184307
    This is something that pro-Second Amendment activists (like me) have been pushing for years; the current practice, while arguably unconstitutional … under the 2nd Amendment and Article 4 of the Constitution, sets up a dangerous situation where a legal gun owner may be deemed a felon … “Our Second Amendment right does not disappear when we cross invisible state lines, and this commonsense legislation guarantees that…
  5. Supreme Court Ruling Allows 'Ghost Gun' (For the Time Being) https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/08/08/supreme-court-ruling-allows-ghost-gun-for-the-time-being-n789460
    This ruling is a loss for Second Amendment advocates, but it’s a tactical loss, not a strategic loss.…
  6. Amending the Constitution: A Proposal https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/08/04/amending-the-constitution-a-proposal-n787684
    nullify the Second Amendment. … Amendment 28 – Term and Service Limits Text The President is limited to one six-year term. … That would have to be a part of Amendment 29, though.…
  7. Democrats, Hysteria, and 'Threats to Democracy' https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/08/03/democrats-hysteria-and-threats-to-democracy-n786998
    general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States… The 16th Amendment … Second, the United States is not and never has been a democracy. … like the House of Representatives, and some distinctly non-democratic institutions, like the Senate, whose (original, pre-17th Amendment…
  8. Jack Smith's 2020 Election Indictment Is, at Best, the Impeachment Case Democrats Should Have Made Against Trump https://redstate.com/joesquire/2023/08/02/jack-smiths-2020-e…chment-case-democrats-should-have-made-against-trump-n786276
    “If you take a red pen to all of the material presumptively protected by the First Amendment, you can reduce much of the indictment … attempt to, Trump could have been meaningfully censured, and possibly have come closer to conviction in the Senate trial for his second…
  9. Biden's BATFE Gets Dealt Major Blow in Pistol Brace Case https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/08/02/bidens-batfe-gets-dealt-major-blow-in-pistol-brace-case-n786000
    Willett, in a concurring opinion, cited Bruen: In my view, protected Second Amendment “conduct” likely includes making common, safety-improving … This won’t be the last time Bruen saves the day in a legal battle on Second Amendment issues. … But this is a win for shooters, especially disabled shooters, and for the Second Amendment.…
  10. SBF Accused of Intimidating Ex-Girlfriend Caroline Ellison, Prosecutors Want Him Jailed for Witness Tampering https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2023/07/31/sbf-accused-of-in…on-prosecutors-want-him-jailed-for-witness-tampering-n785157
    This is the second time Bankman-Fried has benefitted from government stupidity (“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. … that leaked the diaries to the NY Times, and in their filing with the court on this matter, claimed that SBF was within his First Amendment … SBF was exercising his First Amendment rights, the filing claims, when he gave the NYT Ellison’s writings.…
  11. Sunday Gun Day I - Great Reading for Shooters https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/07/30/sunday-gun-day-i-great-reading-for-shooters-n784957
    Modern Encyclopedia Texans, Guns & History The Federalist Bill Jordan (1911-1977) Bill Jordan’s book on handgun combat, “No Second … Jordan’s books include: No Second Place Winner Mostly Huntin’ Tales of the Rio Grande Warren Page (1910-1977) While the saying … We should never, of course, neglect serious reading about modern issues around shooting and the Second Amendment, and you’ll find plenty…
  12. There Is No 'Get Out of Jail Free' Card for Trump In Georgia https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/08/17/there-is-no-get-out-of-jail-free-card-for-trump-in-georgia-n2162754
    Second, an emergency session can be called if 3/5 of both the legislative chambers sign onto a letter to demand a review of Willis’ … president: The Governor of Georgia is not granted the constitutional authority to pardon, so Kemp cannot pardon Trump without an amendment … Only when the electors ratify the amendment would the change be made. To put it simply, neither of these plans is going to work.…
  13. For the First Time Ever, Alabama County Staffs All Schools With Resource Officers https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2023/08/14/for-the-first-tim…ma-county-staffs-all-schools-with-resource-officers-n2162610
    Governor Lee is seeking to balance Second Amendment rights with Left-wing and Democrat demands for more gun control.…
  14. Social Security Reform Is Too Little, Too Late https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/08/14/social-security-reform-is-too-little-too-late-n2162617
    That second item, by the way, would appear to fall afoul of Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, which states in part: The Congress … This clause was the reason the Sixteenth Amendment was passed to authorize the income tax.…
  15. Anti-Gunners Hope to Use Lawfare to Curb Gun Ownership https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/08/14/anti-gunners-hope-to-use-lawfare-to-curb-gun-ownership-n792270
    The new law sparked criticism from pro-Second Amendment organizations and praise from the anti-gunner lobby: “It is really a bill … Prohibitions, that has always been the roadblock, the Second Amendment,” said [CBS 2 Legal Analyst Irv] Miller. … Amendment rights.…
  16. Sunday Gun Day III - Great Guns for Small Game https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/08/13/sunday-gun-day-iii-great-guns-for-small-game-n791800
    And if you need a break from the never-ending Second Amendment arguments, getting outside is a good way to do that.…
  17. Matt Gaetz Tells Iowa State Fair Crowd That Washington Can Be Changed 'Only Through Force' https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/08/12/matt-gaetz-tells-iow…wd-that-washington-can-be-changed-only-through-force-n791980
    January 6 insurrection narrative and the inevitable legal games to try to keep President Trump from running by claiming the 14th Amendment … A seven-second clip showing only the “by force” quote is already circulating.…
  18. Gun Control Victory in Illinois? Not So Fast https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/08/11/gun-control-victory-in-illinois-not-so-fast-n791490
    Gun rights organizations excoriated the court for its ruling against the Second Amendment: In a win for the advocates of gun control … Amendment to own firearms and could not raise it before the Supreme Court. … The Second Amendment claim is alive, however, in several federal lawsuits filed in southern Illinois, later consolidated and awaiting…
  19. BREAKING: Illinois Supreme Court Upholds Semi-Auto Gun Ban https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/08/11/breaking-illinois-supreme-court-upholds-semi-auto-gun-ban-n791300
    Amendment to own firearms and could not raise it before the Supreme Court. … The Second Amendment claim is alive, however, in several federal lawsuits filed in southern Illinois, later consolidated and awaiting … Amendment, the future of laws like this (despite this setback) is uncertain.…
  20. Fifth Circuit Strikes Down Law Forbidding Gun Ownership by Drug Users https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/08/10/fifth-circuit-strikes-down-law-forbidding-gun-ownership-by-drug-users-n790582
    There has been a landmark change in how courts have to look at Second Amendment cases. … Second Amendment arguments aside, there is a due process argument to be made. … We are only beginning to see all of the implications this decision will have, not only on concealed-carry laws but on Second Amendment…
  21. Christopher Wray's FBI: First They Came for the Catholics https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2023/08/10/christopher-wrays-fbi-first-they-came-for-the-catholics-n790077
    leak made headlines, FBI headquarters rescinded the report, claiming it does not “open an investigation based solely on First Amendment … That suggests the FBI already has been investigating Americans based on “First Amendment protected activity.” … January 23, 2023 document claims “Radical-Traditionalist Catholics” (RTCs) are “typically characterized by the rejection of the Second…
  22. Jonathan Turley: That Trump Indictment Could End up Backfiring on Joe Biden https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/08/09/jonathan-turley-t…rump-indictment-could-end-up-backfiring-on-joe-biden-n789803
    notes, it’s based on “little new evidence and even less established law” and it “faces a major threshold challenge under the First Amendment … However, Trump followed the advice of a second, albeit smaller, set of lawyers who told him there was a basis for challenging the election…
  23. Is the NRA Still Relevant? https://redstate.com/mdempsey/2023/08/27/is-the-nra-still-relevant-n2163097
    When it comes to guns, the Second Amendment, gun control, and all that it entails, the most common denominator is the Nationa Rifle … Additionally, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of other gun rights groups around the country that also fight for the Second Amendment … For, if you really cared about the Second Amendment, you'd want nothing to do with the NRA.…
  24. The Future Is Looking Bright for Gun Rights, So Far https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/08/23/the-future-is-looking-bright-for-gun-rights-so-far-n2162979
    We’ve stepped into a new era where Second Amendment litigation is in the realm of originalism. … The original public meaning of the Constitution, the original public meaning of the Second Amendment; what those words meant when they … If we do not continue fighting for our Second Amendment rights, the left could end up reversing this momentum.…
  25. Jordan Peterson Ordered to Undergo Re-Education, Pay $25K Fine by Canadian Court https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/08/23/jordan-peterson-ordered-to-undergo-re-education-n2162968
    In a court case that has wide implications for anyone here who cares about the First Amendment, clinical psychologist and author Jordan … Note the second clause in the next sentence: The prescribed coaching would focus on Peterson's "unprofessional language" and would … And when the First Amendment is rendered meaningless, the Second, Fourth, Fifth, and eventually the others will go down as well.…