Results for: First Amendment

Two Years Later, You'll Still Be Made to Care
https://redstate.com/erick/2015/04/01/two-years-later-youll-still-be-made-to-care-n52402
First, you are not loving your neighbor if you are cool with them going to hell. Do you want to go to hell? No? … We are using the state to protect our ability to preach the scripture under the first amendment.…
Elizabeth Warren's Education Power Grab Fails
https://redstate.com/aglanon/2015/04/16/elizabeth-warrens-education-power-grab-fails-n52575
– dug Washington’s claws deeper into education policy failed: “The first amendment to go down to defeat came from Democratic [mc_name … Warren said the amendment was about improving transparency, but Alexander’s sentiment prevailed as the amendment was defeated along … The rejection of Warren’s amendment provides a glimmer of hope here.…
Cotton and Rubio on verge of scuttling Corker's Iran surrender bill
https://redstate.com/streiff/2015/04/30/cotton-rubio-verge-scuttling-corkers-iran-surrender-bill-n52698
First and foremost, Corker’s bill essentially gives Obama a way to work around the US Constitution. … to compel votes on amendments that would make Iran relinquish its nuclear facilities (Ed note, this is actually false, Cotton’s amendment … does the tactic unleashed by Rubio and Cotton require a vote on these two amendments, it only requires a majority to pass the amendment
Alito Asks the Right Questions Which The Left Doesn't Want Asked
https://redstate.com/lifeofgrace/2015/04/29/alito-asks-right-questions-left-doesnt-want-asked-n52684
– The 14th Amendment which prohibits states from abridging “the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States” protects religious … The Left is swinging a hammer at the First Amendment, and doing so without even thinking about what that pillar supports. …
More Clinton Foreign Money Hypocrisy: They Blasted Bob Dole for It!
https://redstate.com/ironchapman/2015/04/28/clinton-foreign-money-hypocrisy-blasted-bob-dole-n52672
– Moreover, more than 45 witnesses either fled the country or refused to cooperate by citing their Fifth Amendment privilege against … After all, there will be people casting their first vote in a Presidential election in 2016 who were born during Clinton’s second term…
My moment of candor this Friday
https://redstate.com/erick/2015/05/08/my-moment-of-candor-this-friday-n52768
– I would not have done what Pamela Geller did, but many of the people using “yes” and “but” to throw up caveats to the First Amendment … because of her actions are doing so in the wrong order and are no friends of the first amendment.…
GOP Failure Theater: Obamacare edition and starring Rand Paul
https://redstate.com/streiff/2015/05/08/failure-theater-obamacare-edition-starring-rand-paul-n52762
– Many were upset, via The Daily Caller:  Paul’s constitutional amendment says no federal employees should get special exemptions from … What’s being referred to as the “Obamacare fix” for lawmakers and staff was made because the Affordable Care Act includes an amendment … Paul revealed his new amendment push on Sunday after TheDC inquired about a proposal from Louisiana Sen.…
Yes and But In the Wrong Order
https://redstate.com/erick/2015/05/08/yes-and-but-in-the-wrong-order-n52759
– Echoing Islamic radicals, members of the press whose careers depend on the first amendment now insist there be restrictions on the … first amendment. … Someone replied back that surely the founding fathers did not contemplate Islam when they drafted the first amendment.…
Obama: abortion is birth control
https://redstate.com/streiff/2015/05/06/obama-abortion-birth-control-n52737
– T he DC City Council passed a law with the Orwellian name of  “Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Amendment Act of 2014” (RHNDA … The very purpose of this bill as expressed by its sponsor at the first hearing last June was to require religious employers to provide…
Chris Cuomo Is Not That Bright. Good Thing He Can Hide Behind His Last Name.
https://redstate.com/erick/2015/05/06/chris-cuomo-is-not-that-bright-good-thing-he-can-hide-behind-his-last-name-n52738
– The First Amendment does not permit St. … hold: As explained earlier, see supra, at 386, the reason why fighting words are categorically excluded from the protection of the FirstAmendment is not that their content communicates any particular idea, but that their content embodies a particularly intolerable (…
After Garland, free speech not violent extremism is under attack.
https://redstate.com/streiff/2015/05/06/garland-free-speech-violent-extremism-attack-n52736
– the left is now questioning the whether the First Amendment is actually operative when a pet minority group is offended. … First, he is trying to make the bull**** “microaggression” policies in effect on many university campuses the national standard.…
What's Actually Going On
https://redstate.com/erick/2015/05/04/whats-actually-going-on-n52723
– Islamists, the leftists say things like “I’m not sure the founding fathers contemplated someone like Pamela Geller when they wrote the FirstAmendment.” … Notice they do not say, “I’m not sure the founding fathers contemplated Islam when they wrote the First Amendment.”…
God Bless Texas
https://redstate.com/erick/2015/05/03/god-bless-texas-n52712
– But it is increasingly clear that Islam and the First Amendment are not compatible, which means Islam and our constitutional system…
First Daughter Praises "Peaceful" Boston Counter-Protesters
https://redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/08/20/first-daughter-praises-peaceful-boston-counter-protesters-n75600
– “Unofficial” adviser to the president, as well as First Daughter Ivanka Trump watched the events in Boston yesterday and had high … It was, however, a free speech rally, and the First Amendment allows for peaceful gatherings to openly express ideas and opinions, … Allegedly, no one was there to pimp for the alt-right, but rather, to speak to the importance of preserving the First Amendment.…
So... We're Just Gonna Call "Free Speech" an Alt-Right Thing Now?
https://redstate.com/joesquire/2017/08/19/so-just-gonna-call-free-speech-alt-right-thing-now-n75587
– This media smear of a First Amendment right and the people who endorse it is exactly why we can’t have any honest talks about this…
New White House Petition Seeks To Have Antifa Designated as a Domestic Terrorist Group
https://redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/08/19/new-white-house-pe…tion-seeks-antifa-designated-domestic-terrorist-group-n75566
First things first: How much attention do those White House petitions really get, even if they do garner enough signatures? … The first complication with addressing Antifa is determining who they are. … Amendment.…
Yes, I Really Care About Trump's Response to Charlottesville
https://redstate.com/neil_stevens/2017/08/19/yes-really-care-trumps-response-charlottesville-n75554
– David Duke even came out to complain: It appears the First Amendment doesn't apply to White Americans just like racial discrimination … First, he refused to make a strong statement even admitting it was a terrorist act, basically implying it was a lone wolf, just like…
The Kids Are Alright: New Poll Sheds Light on Millennial Attitudes Towards Historical Monuments
https://redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/08/19/kids-alright-new-p…ght-millennial-attitudes-towards-historical-monuments-n75557
– speakers voice their opinions, it is no longer a “peaceful” demonstration, but rather an uprising, and that is not protected by the FirstAmendment.  …
Senator Ben Sasse Delivers Chilling Truth in a Post Entitled 'The Next Charlottesville'
https://redstate.com/kimberly_ross/2017/08/19/ben-sasse-next-charlottesville-n75555
– America is first and foremost an Idea – that all people are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights. … Let’s teach our kids why our First Amendment Society fights with debate, not violence.…
Piers Morgan and the "Nazi Exception" to the First Amendment
https://redstate.com/patterico/2017/08/17/piers-morgan-nazi-exception-first-amendment-n75463
– Today I address Piers Morgan’s similar contention that the First Amendment should not be used to protect Nazis. … You say you understand the purpose of the First Amendment, Piers Morgan? I don’t think you do! Charles C.W. … If that weren’t true, the First Amendment would be pointless. This is not a “controversial” statement.…
The Watercooler, 8/16/17 - OPEN THREAD
https://redstate.com/diamondback/2017/08/16/watercooler-81617-open-thread-n75444
– This Week In History Sunday, 8/13: Penobscot Expedition defeated, 1779; first women enlist in USMC, 1918; Apollo 11 astronauts released … /16: Battle of Bennington, 1777; Klondike Gold Rush begins, 1896; HUAC investigates Vietcong collaborators, 1966 Thursday, 8/17: First … ratified, 1920; Marines win first major battle in Vietnam, 1965 Saturday, 8/19: Constitution defeats Guerriere, 1812; NY Herald breaks…
No, the Government Should Not Censor White Supremacist Views
https://redstate.com/patterico/2017/08/16/no-government-not-censor-white-supremacist-views-n75407
– I could launch into a long historical discussion about the founding fathers and the reasons for the passage of the First Amendment,…
Ted Cruz Talks Charlottesville and a Reporter Becomes Collateral Damage (FULL AUDIO)
https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/08/15/ted-cruz-talks-charl…esville-reporter-becomes-collateral-damage-full-audio-n75376
– “And under the First Amendment they have a right to speak,” Sen. Cruz said. … First, the First Amendment covers reprehensible speech as well as virtuous speech. This is a very good thing. … In fact, Bernie f***ing Sanders, who had an on-the-record, avowed supporter try to shoot up the GOP softball team, was among the first
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