Dec 21, 2023 – Perhaps he believes existing laws will be enough to ensure that parents are punished for exercising their First Amendment rights.…

Dec 20, 2023 – voted to remove former President Donald Trump from the state's 2024 GOP presidential primary ballot using Section 3 of the 14th Amendment … This marks the first time in history that this provision has been leveraged in an effort to prevent a presidential candidate from seeking … The court put its ruling on hold until Jan. 4, so Trump can first seek review from the Supreme Court.…

Dec 20, 2023 – The folks trying to push the 14th Amendment agenda to get former President Donald Trump booted off ballots finally met with success … The purpose of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment — the “disqualification clause” — was to bar Confederates.   … The only narrow part of the opinion came with the interpretation of the First Amendment, where the four justices dismissed the free-speech…

Dec 20, 2023 – We have very clear documentation on the purpose of the amendment.  The circumstances of today are a lot murkier. … Amendment protects Trump’s speech and wasn’t implicitly repealed in that regard by the 14th Amendment, that the Republican Party has … a First Amendment right of association to put an ineligible candidate on its primary ballot, and even that Trump may have a legal…

Dec 20, 2023 – ruled that the former president had committed "insurrection" regarding January 6th and was thereby disqualified under the 14th Amendment … Think about how ironic just the first part of Biden's statement is.…

Dec 20, 2023 – With not quite four weeks to go until the Iowa caucuses, that first-in-the-nation presidential election indicator, former President … At first glance, it would appear that Trump and DeSantis are both losing some support at the margins to Haley. … Emerson survey was conducted from December 15th to the 17th, before the Colorado Supreme Court issued its ruling using a weak 14th Amendment…

Dec 19, 2023 – Donald Trump should be removed from the state’s presidential primary ballot for the 2024 election based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment … The court put its ruling on hold until Jan. 4, so Trump can first seek review from the Supreme Court. … In other states, similar efforts to remove Trump using the 14th Amendment have been shot down.…

Dec 20, 2023 – Jonathan Turley Rips Apart the Colorado Decision Booting Trump Off the Ballot First, Biden responded with the right thing, that he … Now, whether the 14th Amendment applies, we'll let the Court make that decision. But he certainly supported an insurrection.…

Dec 19, 2023 – that 2024 GOP presidential candidate and former POTUS Donald Trump should be removed from the Republican primary ballot on 14th Amendment … the election away from the people of Colorado and robbed them of their right to vote for President Trump.This is an unprecedented First … amendment violation that must be struck down by the SCOTUS.This can not be allowed to stand. — Rep.…

Dec 19, 2023 – But even Christie found the decision by the Colorado Supreme Court booting Trump off the primary ballot under the 14th Amendment for … States by the voters of this country. pic.twitter.com/77ChhLFkFz — Chris Christie (@GovChristie) December 20, 2023 Christie noted first … As my colleague Bob Hoge reported, Vivek Ramaswamy went a step further and showed class by being the first out with a statement, saying…

Dec 17, 2023 – I am guided by the First Amendment of the US Constitution. … I'm not even sure that Satanism qualifies as a religion under the First Amendment.  … There is no binding precedent stating that anti-blasphemy laws violate the First Amendment.…

Dec 17, 2023 – Oh, sure, the people who are complaining have First Amendment rights as well and are free to whinge about the proposed statue. … Here's the thing a lot of folks have a hard time understanding: The First Amendment applies to everyone. … Speaking as a guy with no dog in this religious fight but also as a staunch First Amendment advocate, I hope the Mt.…

Dec 17, 2023 – The First Amendment prohibition on the establishment of religion only applied to the federal government, with several states maintaining … The purpose of the First Amendment was to prevent any Christian denomination — the target was explicitly the Anglican Church because … When he ran for first vice president of the SBC, SBC President Ray Barber lambasted him for his views.…

Dec 16, 2023 – He said: As first reported by the Washington Examiner, Swalwell used his official position to reserve the space for the press conference … Indeed, in 2021 Swalwell sponsored a resolution exploring whether dozens of Republican colleagues could be expelled under the 14th Amendment…

Dec 15, 2023 – First thing I did was I said, Hello? I thought they had the wrong place. … the constitutionality of New York’s gun control laws, arguing that they are overly restrictive and not in line with the Second Amendment … Supreme Court ruling that found a key provision of the state’s long-standing gun control law violated the Second Amendment right to…

Dec 15, 2023 – Republican, and like-minded gun-owners who brought the lawsuit had earlier waived their claims that the law infringes on the Second Amendment … The Second Amendment claim is alive, however, in several federal lawsuits filed in southern Illinois, later consolidated and awaiting … When Illinois first passed the ban, over half of the state’s sheriffs indicated that they would refuse to enforce it, meaning that…

Dec 14, 2023 – but none of the founders would have considered government sanction of Satanic altars inside Capitol buildings as protected by the First … Amendment. … Better yet, they would have never allowed it to be put up in the first place.…

Dec 13, 2023 – The plaintiff alleges that WMATA is violating its First Amendment rights and displaying anti-Christian bias in its refusal to allow … WMATA must support the freedoms provided in the First Amendment rather than silence Americans through censorship.” … In this case, they are standing on principle, taking the government to task for ignoring the First Amendment.…

Dec 14, 2023 – First, unions began adopting a so-called “escape window” policy stating that the union will process a worker’s request to exercise … his or her First Amendment rights of free speech and association during an arbitrary, union-established period of days or weeks every … The Freedom Foundation worked directly with the lawmakers in those states, with Arkansas becoming the first to sign a measure into…

Dec 11, 2023 – This confrontation highlights concerns about First Amendment rights and the effort to indoctrinate children into leftist gender ideology … From a First Amendment perspective, the district’s policy is quite problematic. … The First Amendment not only protects the right to voice one’s opinions openly, but it also protects them from being compelled to make…

Dec 12, 2023 – Speaker Johnson has come under fire for his perceived inability to make a decision on FISA: First, he announced a short-term extension … was found to have spied on almost 120,000 Americans without a warrant, which many viewed as an egregious violation of the Fourth Amendment…

Dec 10, 2023 – While technically not a pure Second Amendment defense case per se, the case involves the NRA's First Amendment rights allegedly being … By defending the First Amendment rights of the NRA, the ACLU is also defending the Second Amendment rights of all Americans and the … Usually, the saying goes the First Amendment is backed up by the Second Amendment; though in this case, it's the reverse.…

Dec 11, 2023 – First of all, as I've said many times, there's no such thing as "gun violence." That's a cynical and dishonest deflection. … Those of us who are involved in the Second Amendment debate are used to politicians blathering about firearms when they lack the requisite…

Dec 10, 2023 – The author points out that the schools in question are private institutions and are “not bound by the First Amendment.” … She also notes that “even public universities that are bound by the First Amendment are not helpless in the face of hate speech,” and…

Dec 10, 2023 – of my bad habits as legally protected. ....Colorado, America's slimmest state, where Boulder is situated, is set to become the first … While religion is protected under the First Amendment, sexual orientation is not, but if we accept the repeated claims of the left…