Results for: First Amendment

The Defining Moments of CPAC 2017
https://redstate.com/jaycaruso/2017/02/26/defining-moments-cpac-2017-n68346
– CPAC 2017 marked the first time a Republican was in office and only the second time (the first being Ronald Reagan) a sitting President … Delusions of grandeur (“Nobody loves the first amendment more than me!”)…
The Show Must Go On. White House Correspondent's Dinner Will Proceed Without Donald Trump
https://redstate.com/mickeywhite2/2017/02/25/show-must-go-on…rrespondents-dinner-will-proceed-without-donald-trump-n68345
– announcement on Twitter that he does not plan to attend the dinner, which has been and will continue to be a celebration of the FirstAmendment and the important role played by an independent news media in a healthy republic.…
Trump is Vindictive, the Media is Lying, and We Suffer for It
https://redstate.com/joesquire/2017/02/25/trump-vindictive-media-lying-suffer-n68320
– Whats more, the media is straight-up lying when they say this is a violation of the First Amendment. … The First Amendment prohibits the restriction of the free press from reporting. … To say it is a First Amendment violation is to say CNN and the outlets who were barred are the only source of information.…
After Various Outlets Shut Out of White House Briefing, Media Figures Speak Up
https://redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/02/24/various-outlets-shut-white-house-briefing-media-figures-speak-n68318
– apologists will find a way to blow this off, but those who see this administration as a potential threat to our Constitution and the FirstAmendment, in particular, will see it as another shot fired across the bow of free media.…
The White House Is Setting The Agenda For the Sunday Shows Today
https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/02/24/white-house-setting-agenda-sunday-shows-today-n68312
– And, no, the fact that he went on to say he loves the First Amendment doesn't make this better. pic.twitter.com/O35Xvx96hW — Ryan … Lizza (@RyanLizza) February 24, 2017 Today is not the first time Trump has suggested weakening the First Amendment: https://t.co … That group included ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, Reuters and This will be portrayed as some kind of assault on the First Amendment when,…
RedState's WaterCooler! Friday, 2/24/2017 - Open Thread - Calendar: Oscar, Peru, Wilbur and the DNC
https://redstate.com/earhartam/2017/02/24/redstates-watercooler-friday-2242017-open-thread-n68313
– The question to the court is whether the NC law violates the sex offenders first amendment rights. … Tuesday, 28 February: Mardi Gras Celebration Trump to address a joint session of Congress Wednesday, 1 March Ash Wednesday is the first … It marks the first of 40 days and nights of Christ’s journey into the desert in preparation of fulfilling God’s prophecy for Him.…
The Fourth Circuit's Evisceration of the Second Amendment
https://redstate.com/patterico/2017/02/24/fourth-circuits-evisceration-second-amendment-n68275
– The opinion ignores the basic reasoning of the Supreme Court case that upheld Second Amendment rights: D.C. v. Heller. … may be objected that if weapons that are most useful in military service—M-16 rifles and the like—may be banned, then the Second Amendment … But as we have said, the conception of the militia at the time of the Second Amendment ’s ratification was the body of all citizens…
BREAKING. Trump's Travel Ban Executive Order Put On Hold By Democrat Judge In Hawaii
https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/03/15/breaking-trumps-travel-ban-executive-order-put-hold-democrat-judge-hawaii-n69144
– he also could rule before day’s end after a morning hearing, and the same federal judge in Washington state who suspended Trump’s first … Lawyers for Hawaii alleged the new travel ban, much like the old, violates the establishment clause of the First Amendment because…
Watercooler 3/15 Open Thread: San Francisco Waging Jihad Against Guns... in ALASKA?
https://redstate.com/diamondback/2017/03/15/watercooler-315-open-thread-n69137
– Contact the National Rifle Association, Second Amendment Foundation, and National Shooting Sports Foundation and ask them why they … This Week In History Sunday, 3/12: Coke first bottled, 1894; FDR’s first “fireside chat” radio address, 1933; Truman Doctrine proclaimed … Patrick’s Day: British abandon Siege of Boston, 1776; first flight of B-45 Tornado, America’s first operational jet bomber, 1947; UC…
The Constitution Protects Us…from Government. And Only from Government
https://redstate.com/setonmotley/2017/03/13/constitution-protects-usfrom-government-government-n68992
– He calls it “The First Amendment issue of our time.”  … Wu actually argues that: “(Internet providers) should not be allowed to use the First Amendment to avoid regulation.” … The ONLY entity from whom the First Amendment (and, in fact, the Constitution in totality) protects We the People – is government.…
USDA Threatened To Shut Down This Meat Packer Because He Opposed Gay Marriage
https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/03/10/usda-threatened-shut-meat-packer-opposed-gay-marriage-n68921
– This kind of idiocy, which works directly against the pluralistic founding principles of America, would be forbidden if the First Amendment
Watercooler 3/6/2017 Open Thread: When to stop caring...
https://redstate.com/grumpy_old_soldier/2017/03/06/watercooler-362017-open-thread-stop-caring-n68705
– Well, they caught wind of Trump Supporters exercising their pesky first amendment rights again.…
Teacher Fired for Telling Students to Stand for Pledge of Allegiance
https://redstate.com/mwalsh8/2017/03/24/teacher-fired-telling-students-stand-pledge-allegiance-n69567
– The situation only became controversial when Cooper’s mother, Kelley Porter Turner, claimed that Ziebarth violated her son’s FirstAmendment rights. … “This wasn’t the first time a teacher at the school had gotten in trouble over their reaction to Cooper’s defiant position regarding…
Media Flocks To Defend Obama Holdovers While Attacking Trump Appointees
https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/03/23/media-flocks-defend-obama-holdovers-attacking-trump-appointees-n69503
– little more difficult to apply and a lot more difficult to prove in the office and it deprives federal employees of significant FirstAmendment rights in service of keeping the public fooled about the politics of civil servants.…
It's Here: The GOP's 'Repeal & Replace' Bill is Revised and Amended (But Will It Pass?)
https://redstate.com/absentee/2017/03/21/gops-repeal-replace-bill-revised-amended-will-pass-n69371
– Here’s more from the Speaker’s office: The first amendment makes technical revisions to the original bill to ensure compliance with … That “Manager’s Amendment” is outlined in this 4-page PDF. (The full text of the amendment is 21 pages.) It has selling points. … Meadows succinctly described the amendment as “Not sufficient.”…
STUNNER. The GOP Actually Did Not Weaken 2016 Platform Language On Ukraine Or Russia
https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/03/20/gop-platform-ukraine-n69295
– The end result was that at the behest of the Trump campaign, the platform committee took out of first paragraph of Denman’s amendmentFirst, that story comports perfectly with York’s narrative. … The story states the amendment was the work of Denman and implies, though never actually states, that her amendment had support from…
Water Cooler 3/16/17 Open Thread; New Media Goes To the White House;Hawaii Forces Church To Recommend Abortion; How Fake News Gets Made
https://redstate.com/joliphant/2017/03/16/water-cooler-31617…forces-church-recommend-abortion-fake-news-gets-made-n69174
– Up Close And Personal With Lauren Southern On Getting White House Press Access   He’s destroying the first amendment. … –PJ Media Just starting out here from a purely secular perspective this a violation of the first amendment on freedom of speech pure…
RedState's WaterCooler! 4/4/2017 - Open Thread - Dr. Martin Luther King Lives
https://redstate.com/earhartam/2017/04/04/redstates-watercooler-442017-open-thread-dr-martin-luther-king-lives-n70074
– Maybe I could understand the denial of certain basic First Amendment privileges, because they hadn’t committed themselves to that over … But he got down with him, administered first aid, and helped the man in need. … … You know, several years ago, I was in New York City autographing the first book that I had written.…
Rand Paul Slams McCain, Others for Vote to Send ‘Kids to War With no Debate’
https://redstate.com/mwalsh8/2017/03/29/rand-paul-slams-senate-for-vote-to-send-kids-to-war-with-no-debate-n69756
– without allowing debate, they are sending our “sons and daughters to fight border disputes” that we shouldn’t be involved with in the first … When I finish this speech, I will ask for an amendment, and it will be denied because they do not want to debate whether your sons … find that appalling,” Paul said, adding, “I am ashamed of a Senate that will not have a debate and will not have a vote [on the amendment
Activists Behind Undercover Planned Parenthood Videos Hit With 15 New Felony Charges
https://redstate.com/kimberly_ross/2017/03/29/activists-behi…r-planned-parenthood-videos-hit-15-new-felony-charges-n69759
– world what is on our yet-unreleased video tapes of Planned Parenthood’s criminal baby body parts enterprise, in vindication of the FirstAmendment rights of all.…
The Long Lost Beauty of Equal Protection Before the Law
https://redstate.com/setonmotley/2017/03/27/long-lost-beauty-equal-protection-law-n69658
– The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution contains the “Equal Protection Clause.”  … Amendment right to “lobby Congress for redress of grievances” – and securing tax “loopholes.”  … They instead look to eviscerate the First Amendment – by circumscribing the right of Americans to speak freely in elections.…
Democrats Begin to Realize That Being the Abortion Party Isn't Helping
https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/03/27/democrats-begin-to-realize-that-being-the-abortion-party-isnt-helping-n69655
– Republican voter for decades is the bright line Reagan laid down when the GOP placed a pro-life plank in its 1980 platform: The first … Four years later, the issue has been settled: The GOP seeks a constitutional amendment protecting “the right to life for unborn children…
It's Good Friday And I Have A Message For The American Church
https://redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/04/14/good-friday-message-american-church-n70605
– And every sin was washed away at Calvary, long before I was ever born, or ever sinned my first sin. … I wrote a piece today about the Johnson Amendment, and gave my thoughts about why doing away with it is no great gift to the Church … think of the soft and entitled American Christian, and I wonder how many of those who are cheering the idea of having the Johnson Amendment
Let The Lawsuits Begin! Groups Sue For Access To White House Visitors Logs
https://redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/04/10/let-lawsuits-begin-groups-sue-access-white-house-visitors-logs-n70332
– The National Security Archive, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), and the Knight First Amendment Institute … Did they at least ask, first, or is it straight to the lawsuit? Legitimate question. … They made their first request of Trump’s administration on January 23, 2017 – just three days after Trump’s inauguration.…
Obama's Programs Seem to Have Worked Exactly As Intended
https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/04/09/why-obamas-programs-worked-as-intended-n70291
– At first blush, they seem to have little in common but the reports show they actually were quite similar. … It sought to propagate the idea that militias, the Tea Party, the sovereign citizen movement, Second Amendment activists, etc., were…
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