Results for: First Amendment
Robert Mueller's Latest Courtroom Stunt May Cost the Taxpayers Plenty
https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/05/17/robert-muellers-latest-courtroom-stunt-may-cost-taxpayers-plenty-n89762
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When Mueller first announced the indictment, my gut feeling was that it was a public relations scam being run on a credulous media … They’ve responded to their first discovery request:
While the legal teams picked at one another in and out of court, Mueller’s office … The 1997 Hyde Amendment allows the court to order the federal government to pay attorneys fees and costs “where the court finds that…
Senate Republicans Should Stand With Ted Cruz and Ben Sasse, Reject Mark Bennett's 9th Circuit Nomination
https://redstate.com/joesquire/2018/05/17/senate-republicans…ben-sasse-reject-mark-bennetts-9th-circuit-nomination-n89731
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The first is Citizens United, in which he joined an amicus brief as Hawaii’s attorney general. … That brief ran counter to what the Supreme Court ultimately ruled – that corporations had First Amendment rights. … Bennett also signed onto an amicus brief in the Heller case, a major Second Amendment case before the Supreme Court.…
Sugar Subsidies Should Go—Consumers and Candy Manufacturers Would Benefit
https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2018/05/17/sugar-subsidies-go-consumers-candy-manufacturers-benefit-n89732
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For instance, Virginia Foxx (R-NC) has offered an amendment to the farm bill to eliminate the production limits keeping sugar prices … By way of compensation for the loss of their historic ill-gotten but legal gains at the public’s expense, Foxx’s amendment would exempt … If adopted, Foxx’s amendment would represent the first substantial reform to the Sugar Program in more than 80 years.…
Debbie Wasserman Schultz Counters Oliver North's Incendiary Language With Some Stupidity of Her Own
https://redstate.com/kimberly_ross/2018/05/16/schultz-counters-norths-stupidity-own-n89719
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Too many on the Left yell “repeal the Second Amendment!” … I strongly support the Second Amendment and believe it should be protected. … I also support the First Amendment even when someone utters the kind of lunacy we see above.…
Importing Big Government Is Even Dumber than Domestic Big Government
https://redstate.com/setonmotley/2018/05/15/importing-big-government-even-dumber-domestic-big-government-n89632
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And just like any other organism – its first instinct is self-preservation. … And looking to add an amendment thereto: some variation of The Sugar Policy Modernization Act (H.R. 4265). … There’s a bit of a problem with this amendment. The rest of the world – is doing nothing resembling anything similar.…
The Sports Betting Case: What It Means and Does Not Mean
https://redstate.com/davenj1/2018/05/15/sports-betting-case-means-not-mean-n89621
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Under the Tenth Amendment, the Constitution does not give a particular power to the federal government or take away that power from … First, New Jersey does not get any competitive advantage (other than timing) since the decision affects about 25 states. … The first major area is marijuana legalization efforts in various states. …
Stormy Daniels' Lawyer Threatens Daily Caller With Lawsuit for Exposing Him
https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/05/14/stormy-daniels-lawyer-threatens-daily-caller-lawsuit-exposing-n89592
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First was President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, who had been revealed to be a prolific hustler selling influence he does … That doesn't mean it's defamatory or otherwise outside the protection of the First Amendment.…
North's Inflammatory Rhetoric Is Not What the NRA Needs
https://redstate.com/jimjamitis/2018/05/14/norths-inflammatory-rhetoric-not-nra-needs-n89580
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exactly the wrong type of rhetoric to achieve the organizations goals, assuming those goals involve more than just whipping Second Amendment … Is I’ve said before, I am a firm believer in the Second Amendment but I’ve never been a member of the NRA. … Fighting to defend the Second Amendment is a political task and requires carefully crafted messaging. …
Killer Mike on 'Real Time with Bill Maher': Gun Laws Affect Us Worst and First
https://redstate.com/kiradavis/2018/05/12/killer-mike-real-time-bill-maher-gun-laws-affect-us-worst-first-n89513
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Killer Mike continued his mission to blow up the white left-wing extremist paradigm on guns and Second Amendment rights over the … As Killer Mike says:
These laws or going to affect us worse and they’re going to affect us first. … The entire point of the Second Amendment is to prevent such tyranny!…
University of Michigan Sued Over Unfair Speech Code
https://redstate.com/ameliahamilton/2018/05/11/university-of-michigan-sued-over-unfair-speech-code-n89479
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First Amendment advocacy group Speech First has taken the University of Michigan to court over their “highly subjective” policies … In a press release, Speech First said:
Speech First asserts that the lack of clear and meaningful standards in both the school’s … “Speech codes like Michigan’s flagrantly violate the First Amendment,” said Speech First President Nicole Neily.…
Supreme Court Hands Down Another Pro-Fourth Amendment Ruling
https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/05/29/supreme-court-hands-another-pro-fourth-amendment-ruling-n90311
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The Supreme Court handed down what I think will end up being considered a significant defense of the Fourth Amendment. … AutomobileException #Curtilage https://t.co/NjEMsFxDKc
— Shawn Curry (@ShawnCurryLaw) May 29, 2018
Justice Sotomayor has the first … Virginia, a Fourth Amendment case.…
Three Reasons the Anti-Gun Crowd Remains Quiet About the Oklahoma Restaurant Shooting
https://redstate.com/kimberly_ross/2018/05/27/three-reasons-anti-gun-quiet-oklahoma-n90234
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Good Guys With Guns Stopped a Bad Guy With a Gun
When you’re eager to take away Second Amendment rights, this kind of real-life aspect … they’ll receive commendation from those who believe they should not have been in possession of those filthy killing tools in the first … We can’t possibly be for the Second Amendment while children are being gunned down in hallways and classrooms, right?…
Sweet Win For Religious Freedom as California Judge Rules in Favor of Christian Baker
https://redstate.com/kimberly_ross/2018/05/26/win-religious-freedom-favor-baker-n90193
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Judge Lampe explained his decision as follows:
“The right to freedom of speech under the First Amendment outweighs the State’s interest … “The right of freedom of thought guaranteed by the First Amendment includes the right to speak, and the right to refrain from speaking…
Tomi Lahren Attacked at Minneapolis Restaurant, and You'll Be Shocked by her Supporters
https://redstate.com/alexparker/2018/05/23/tomi-lahren-attacked-minneapolis-restaurant-youll-shocked-supporters-n90077
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The first amendment is a beautiful thing – use it. https://t.co/Yx8obh0aH0
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) May 23, 2018
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Federal Judge: Trump Blocking Twitter Accounts Is Unconstitutional
https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/05/23/federal-judge-trump-blocking-twitter-accounts-unconstitutional-n90062
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Trump's blocking of critics on Twitter is unconstitutional, court rules. https://t.co/8fZ6cdKbAL pic.twitter.com/47a0yNYYkb
— Knight First … Amendment Institute (@knightcolumbia) May 23, 2018
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Gun Grabbing Houston Police Chief Threatens Dana Loesch With Legal Action Over NRA Video
https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/05/23/gun-grabbing-houston…ce-chief-threatens-dana-loesch-legal-action-nra-video-n90043
https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/05/23/gun-grabbing-houston…ce-chief-threatens-dana-loesch-legal-action-nra-video-n90043
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Kevin Williamson has this to say:
The Second Amendment, like the First Amendment [editor’s note: Williamson was prescient in this … because Acevedo hadn’t attacked the First Amendment at this point], is a constitutional provision that says, in effect: “You idiots … The First Amendment says what it says, no matter how much that may annoy Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren.…
Anti-Gun Liberals Attempt Boycott Against Publix
https://redstate.com/sarah-rumpf/2018/05/22/anti-gun-liberals-attempt-boycott-publix-n90023
https://redstate.com/sarah-rumpf/2018/05/22/anti-gun-liberals-attempt-boycott-publix-n90023
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Several liberal activists took to Twitter to denounce Publix’s support for Putnam, focusing on his support for the NRA and Second Amendment … have supported Putnam as their “hometown candidate” — Putnam hails from Polk County, the site of Publix’s headquarters — since he first…
New Poll Sizes Up Andrew Cuomo's 2nd Term; Will Hillary Help or Hurt?
https://redstate.com/alexparker/2018/05/21/new-poll-sizes-andrew-cuomos-2nd-term-will-hillary-help-hurt-n89983
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In a bizarre turn of events, Cuomo’s challenger is the former star of something former First Lady Clinton’s husband knows a great deal … He’s been no friend to the 2nd Amendment, resulting in a lawsuit by the NRA; and liberal protestors have previously dubbed him “Governor…
Are We Spreading Political Correctness by Calling it That?
https://redstate.com/alexparker/2018/06/09/political-correctness-by-calling-it-that-n90861
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At first, it was merely an idiotic idea coming from the fringe. It was mocked. … Call it what it is: thought policing, tyranny, despotism, totalitarianism, fascism, oppression, repression, radical leftism, anti-First … Amendment, unconstitutional.…
Today President Trump May Have Put the Libertarian Party Out of Business AND Locked Up the Millennial Vote For 2020
https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/06/08/today-president-trum…ibertarian-party-business-locked-millennial-vote-2020-n90817
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One of the first things Jeff Sessions did upon becoming Attorney General and discovering real crime had vanished and law enforcement … earlier, Garner and Warren, who both represent states with legal recreational marijuana, introduced the Strengthening the Tenth Amendment…
Sex Education: Teacher Claims He was Forced to Quit by School's Anti-Religious Transgender Mandate
https://redstate.com/alexparker/2018/06/06/sex-education-tea…it-schools-anti-religious-freedom-transgender-mandate-n90720
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This is Berle’s first network performance since his quadruple bypass heart surgery last June 10. … Kluge, who has worked at Brownsburg for four years, believes the mandate violates his religious convictions and his First Amendment…
Dare to Dream: Alyssa Milano Pines for a Day When Women Have Rights
https://redstate.com/alexparker/2018/06/06/alyssa-milano-dreams-day-women-can-vote-n90699
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#ERANow
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) June 5, 2018
First of all, who are the actual 4% that don’t believe women should be … Amendment wouldn't either. https://t.co/7Y9VrJ70rW
— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) June 6, 2018
Good point. … Have you considered reading the 14th Amendment, or no?…
Don't Panic, Anybody: Donald Trump Has Asked an Appeals Court To Let Him Block People on Twitter
https://redstate.com/joesquire/2018/06/05/dont-panic-anybody…ld-trump-asked-appeals-court-let-block-people-twitter-n90640
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Social media is changing the way things are done, and Trump is the first President to use it in a deeply personal way – actually interacting … But let’s not pretend that being blocked by the President is some violation of your First Amendment rights.…
Democrisy: The hypocrisy of Kamala Harris
https://redstate.com/kentucky_dana/2018/06/05/democrisy-hypocrisy-kamala-harris-n90611
https://redstate.com/kentucky_dana/2018/06/05/democrisy-hypocrisy-kamala-harris-n90611
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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 … may be used to batter down anyone who does not go along with leftist groupthink.
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The Masterpiece Cakeshop Decision Is More of a Dire Warning Than a Cause for Celebration
https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/06/04/masterpiece-cakeshop-decision-dire-warning-cause-celebration-n90574
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the fact that Anthony Kennedy, who never met a perversion he couldn’t agree to cheer on in the name of tolerance, should be the first … S. ___ (2015), “[t]he First Amendment ensures that religious organizations and persons are given proper protection as they seek to … All of this simply underscores just how close the Free Exercise Clause is to becoming as relevant as the Third Amendment.…