Results for: First Amendment

These GOP Representatives think you are idiots UPDATED
https://redstate.com/streiff/2015/03/05/gop-representatives-think-idiots-n52144
– After weeks of obstruction by Senate Democrats, first to debating the House bill, and then to convening a conference committee with … Today Montana Congressman Ryan Zinke voted against President Obama’s unconstitutional executive amnesty by voting no on the Senate Amendment
Senate GOP negotiates with themselves on human trafficking bill
https://redstate.com/streiff/2015/03/19/senate-gop-negotiates-human-trafficking-bill-n52280
– The sticking point is that it includes Hyde Amendment language that prohibits any money associated with the program for being used … suggests there could eventually be a way to end the impasse that has stalled the confirmation of Lynch, who would be the nation’s first
Obama Administration’s Justice Department Refuses to Seek Justice for Targeted Americans
https://redstate.com/matthewclark/2015/03/18/obama-administr…ce-department-refuses-seek-justice-targeted-americans-n52273
– “Under Lois Lerner’s direction, the IRS became a political tool used to systematically target and undermine Americans’ First Amendment
Georgia's David Ralston Forgets Hobby Lobby
https://redstate.com/erick/2015/03/17/georgias-david-ralston-forgets-hobby-lobby-n52248
amendment. … It did so not because of the First Amendment, but because of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. … The First Amendment would not have been enough to help the businesses affected. They had to rely on RFRA.…
Many Conservatives are Blowing it on the Ferguson DOJ Report
https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2015/03/15/many-conservatives-blowing-it-ferguson-doj-report-n52227
– The reflexive defense of the FPD by conservatives tends to come from two sources: the first is the belief among many conservatives … However, the two most clear control issues were as follows: First, anyone of rank sergeant or above reviews their own “Use of Force … Amendment rights not to be polite to cops, including one woman who was, by admission, arrested for peacefully calling an officer’s…
Tolerance For Me. Not For Thee.
https://redstate.com/erick/2015/03/15/tolerance-for-me-not-for-thee-n52232
– The first of those paragraphs is flat out wrong. … Constitution’s first amendment. They were only saved by the federal RFRA law, which Georgia does not have.…
Democrats Put Abortion before Helping Human Trafficking Victims
https://redstate.com/ironchapman/2015/03/13/democrats-put-abortion-helping-human-trafficking-victims-n52213
– This is a routine amendment to all spending bills, but evidently, the Democrats had to draw the line here and throw trafficking victims … Jeff Flake (R-AZ)’ chamber=’senate’ mcid=’F000444′ ] are both quoted in the first article as being surprised that their Democratic … Without the language inserted by the Republicans into the bill, the Hyde Amendment would not apply here.…
Christians Side With Mammon. Mammon Sided with Barabbas.
https://redstate.com/erick/2015/03/31/christians-side-with-mammon-mammon-sided-with-barabbas-3-n52403
– The religious liberty in the first amendment is meant to protect the religious as they seek to draw people to them. … But the world demands instead that the first amendment be used to draw the religious to the world and silence those who refuse to go … Mammon Sided with Barabbas. appeared first on RedState.…
You Don't Need a Rainbow Sticker to Let People Know You're Black
https://redstate.com/erick/2015/03/31/you-dont-need-a-rainbow-sticker-to-let-people-know-youre-black-n52389
amendment be on the same legal footing in courts as the “free speech” clause of the first amendment. … But the Court subsequently ruled that the free exercise clause, also in the First Amendment, need not fall under the compelling governmental … Amendment.…
Republicans Give Tax Increases and Treat Religion as a Lesser Right
https://redstate.com/erick/2015/03/30/republicans-give-tax-increases-and-religion-as-a-lesser-right-n52377
amendment, it needed a compelling governmental interest as well. … In Georgia today, the Republican Party has decided that the religious freedom guarantee of the first amendment is not equal with the … Amendment.…
Holding Leviathan by the Tail: A Story of Republicans and Same-Sex "Marriage"
https://redstate.com/thomas/2015/03/27/holding-leviathan-tail-story-republicans-sex-marriage-n52357
– Even with Roe, speech is in the First Amendment. You’re just doing this for effect. … The dissent cried that this was the first step to gay marriage; no, no, the majority said. … A decade later, a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as it’s always been, entered by popular referendum in the most populous…
Boys Using the Girls' Bathroom
https://redstate.com/erick/2015/03/23/boys-using-girls-bathroom-n52302
– He  needs to demand Speaker Ralston put S.B. 129 to a vote without amendment. Here is how you can help.   … Tell the Governor it is time to get involved to support S.B. 129 without amendment. Then call these Representatives.   … Tell them to refuse to vote on the school plan until S.B. 129 passes the House without amendment.…
I Watched "John Wick 2" And Now I Want To Kill Absolutely Nobody
https://redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/02/11/watched-john-wick-2-now-want-kill-absolutely-nobody-n67696
– There was very little time spent dipping into the back story from the first film. There was no slow build up. … You do briefly meet a couple of new characters who were loosely related to characters from the first movie, but then it was right back … The story line was actually a lot tighter than the first, I feel, which is saying a lot, considering it was juggling more characters…
RedState's WaterCooler! Friday 2/10/2017 - Open Thread - A Cosmic Trifecta Tonight! and, Three State's May Add Tax-Free Gun Sale Holdiays
https://redstate.com/earhartam/2017/02/10/redstates-watercoo…night-three-states-may-add-tax-free-gun-sale-holdiays-n67681
– Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková, which entered the media spotlight in December as the “New Year’s Eve comet” when it first became … A couple of states currently host a “Second Amendment Tax-Free Holiday” and that’s where open-season stock up profits head to, too. … Well, not that our second amendment right will ever equally meet the left’s right to say stupid things; but, with this particularly…
Stop Whining About The 'Silencing' Of Elizabeth Warren; The GOP Did Worse To Ted Cruz
https://redstate.com/jaycaruso/2017/02/08/stop-whining-silencing-elizabeth-warren-gop-worse-ted-cruz-n67549
– Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), delivered what senators described as punishment for Cruz’s brazen floor tactics — the Texas senator first … accused McConnell of lying and later sought to change Senate procedures in order to push for an Iran-related amendment.…
VP Pence Defends Trump's Support Of Obama's Executive Order On LGBT Workplace Protections
https://redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/02/07/vp-pence-defends-t…ort-obamas-executive-order-lgbt-workplace-protections-n67467
– “He was the very first Republican nominee to mention the LGBTQ community at our Republican National Convention and was applauded for … Trump and Pence seem to think if he does away with the Johnson Amendment, which would allow for politicians to go into church pulpits…
Author of "Torture Memos" Pens a Thought-Provoking Op-Ed On Trump's Executive Orders
https://redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/02/06/author-torture-mem…pens-thought-provoking-op-ed-trumps-executive-orders-n67422
– it would be a “Muslim ban” were in violation of the Constitution’s protection of the freedom of religion, as spelled out in the FirstAmendment.…
Why Repeal the Johnson Amendment and Leave President Obama's EO on LGBT Workplace "Protections" in Place?
https://redstate.com/joshkimbrell/2017/02/06/repeal-johnson…president-obamas-eo-lgbt-workplace-protections-place-n67413
– At the National Prayer Breakfast this week in Washington, President Trump reaffirmed his commitment to repeal the Johnson Amendment … As a result, an obscure amendment to a 1954 tax bill has become a wet blanket to religious liberty and has undermined the First Amendment … President Trump is right to call for its repeal on grounds that it violates religious liberty and undermines the First Amendment.…
Further Legal Analysis of the Issues on Appeal to the Ninth Circuit in Trump's Immigration Order
https://redstate.com/patterico/2017/02/05/legal-analysis-issues-appeal-ninth-circuit-trumps-immigration-order-n67407
First, the States lose tax revenue from persons who cannot come to the U.S. to work or travel. … While there is plenty of room for executive mischief there, the amendment made clear that Congress still wanted the discrimination…
Let's Talk About The Johnson Amendment And The Religious Freedom Boogeyman
https://redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/02/05/lets-talk-johnson-amendment-religious-freedom-boogeyman-n67403
First, we must distinguish what the Johnson Amendment does and does not do. … The Johnson Amendment is an amendment to the IRS code, enacted into law in 1954. … provided to them by the First Amendment of the Constitution.…
Trump Family Influence Kept Obama-era LGBT Executive Order In Place
https://redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/02/04/trump-family-influence-kept-obama-era-lgbt-executive-order-place-n67363
– In fact, Trump was the first Republican nominee for the presidency to feature an openly gay speaker at the RNC Convention. … There has been some speculation that Trump intends to repeal the Johnson Amendment, a law that prevents campaigning from the pulpit…
Pathetic Misery Pimp To Sue For Right To Rehang Vile Anti-Police Painting
https://redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/02/20/pathetic-misery-pimp-sue-right-rehang-vile-anti-police-painting-n68137
– that the painting’s removal, which followed outcry from House Republicans and police advocacy groups, violated his constituent’s FirstAmendment rights to free expression.…
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