Results for: First Amendment

Public Health Experts Seem to Have Targeted the Constitution as a Public Health Crisis
https://redstate.com/streiff/2020/06/09/852296-n139527
– For instance, when AIDS first erupted and the main classes vulnerable to that venereal disease were declared to be male homosexuals … Given the way the left has tried to use ‘public health’ as a pressure point on the Second Amendment, it isn’t hard to see how homicides … Then the First Amendment has been effectively abolished.…
NC Governor Drops Hammer on Local Speedway After They Exposed His Outdoor Gatherings Hypocrisy
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2020/06/09/nc-governor-d…after-they-exposed-his-outdoor-gatherings-hypocrisy-n139512
– There are First Amendment exceptions to that, which protests like the ones we’ve seen happen across the state over the last week in … without contact tracing measures put in place, why can’t a speedway reopen that not only is doing both, but that also did so on FirstAmendment grounds?…
Protester Allegedly Shoots Up Protest, Killing One at Louisville 'Autonomous Zone,' Shooting Caught on Video
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/06/28/protester-shoots…lle-autonomous-zone-protest-shooting-caught-on-video-n244819
– “But yet, we wanted to balance the First Amendment exercise of free speech, the need to come together, while at the same time understanding…
Hammer of the Law Catches Up to Radicals Who Allegedly Tried to Rip Down Andrew Jackson Statue
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/06/27/hammer-of-the-law…ho-allegedly-tried-to-rip-down-andrew-jackson-statue-n244775
– This Office remains steadfast in its commitment to protect the sacred First Amendment right of individuals to peacefully protest, but…
Six Hundred Thousand Dead Soldiers Say That Jamelle Bouie's Alt-History of Emancipation is Nonsense
https://redstate.com/streiff/2020/06/26/six-hundred-thousand…melle-bouies-alt-history-of-emancipation-is-nonsense-n244685
– They helped set freedom in motion and eventually codified it into law with the 13th Amendment, but they were not themselves responsible … That goes back to the competing historical narratives about America’s first century.…
Facebook Still Silent as Project Veritas Releases Second Sting Video, and This One Is Even Worse
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2020/06/25/pv-second-facebook-n244553
– policies for simply using company systems for personal use and distancing themselves from the idea of punishing him against his firstamendment right.…
Black Lives Matter Does the Democrats' Dirty Work; Here's What a BLM 'Tough Guy' Told Fox News
https://redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2020/06/25/black-lives-matter-leader-n244547
– MACCALLUM: First of all I’ve never talked about my stance on the Second Amendment. I’m not criticizing you or praising you. … NEWSOME: I’m asking you a question, do you support the Second Amendment, yes or no? … MACCALLUM: The Second Amendment is part of our Constitution.…
The Democrats Rejected Tim Scott's Bill, but Not Because They Have a Better One
https://redstate.com/joesquire/2020/06/25/the-democrats-reje…m-scotts-bill-but-not-because-they-have-a-better-one-n244527
– The Senate confirmed Haspel as the first female director of the CIA following a difficult nomination process that reopened an emotional … offered Senate Democrats a chance to amend the bill, Democrats voted to bring their bill to the floor without allowing a single GOP amendment
Carpe Donktum Permanently Banned From Twitter Over Satirical "Racist Toddler" Video
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2020/06/24/carpe-donktum-one…favorite-meme-makers-permanently-banned-from-twitter-n244431
– The version posted to Trump’s account made it first appear as if the Black child was running away from the White child. … Or is that Katie Couric and Second Amendment supporters? Such a tough competition.…
Tom Cotton Gives a Must-Watch Speech for the Ages on the Dangers of Mob Rule and Cancel Culture
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2020/06/23/tom-cotton-gi…e-ages-on-the-dangers-of-mob-rule-and-cancel-culture-n244375
– Some have even absurdly suggested the mobs are merely exercising their First Amendment rights. This is pure nonsense. … Peaceful protests are guaranteed under the First Amendment. … Rioting, looting, vandalism, and destruction of private and/or public property is not a First Amendment-protected “right” in any way…
Radical Leftists Also Attacked Statue of Miguel de Cervantes, Iconic Writer Who Was a Slave; Spain Objects
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/06/20/radical-leftists…of-miguel-de-cervantes-who-was-a-slave-spain-objects-n244048
– He also advocated for the 15the Amendment and signed law that helped crush the KKK in its original form. … “From the first works written after his liberation, such as the play Life in Algiers (c. 1581-1583) and his novel La Galatea (1585)…
Supreme Court Tells Ninth Circuit to Stay Out of Personnel Decisions of Religious Organizations
https://redstate.com/streiff/2020/07/08/supreme-court-religious-liberty-catholic-schools-n245690
– religious schools discharge those responsibilities would undermine the independence of religious institutions in a way that the FirstAmendment does not tolerate.” … Amendment does not allow.…
Supreme Court Rules That a Religious Order Bound With a Vow of Chastity Does Not Have to Pay for Contraceptive Coverage
https://redstate.com/streiff/2020/07/08/supreme-court-rules…tity-does-not-have-to-pay-for-contraceptive-coverage-n245673
– Hobby  Lobby  Stores decision, which ruled that forcing employers to provide birth control coverage potentially violated the FirstAmendment, the Obama administration constructed a test to be used by employers seeking the exemption to comply with the SCOTUS decision … “Today, for the first time, the Court casts totally aside countervailing rights and interests in its zeal to secure religious rights…
To Fight COVID-19, a Florida Criminal Defense Attorney Hits the Courtroom in a Hazmat Suit
https://redstate.com/alexparker/2020/07/07/samuel-j-rabin-florida-attorney-court-hazmat-suit-covid-19-n245645
– The Florida attorney’s a “safety first” kind of guy. That’s merely my interpretation, but I could point to a bit of evidence. … prepared for a bit of this:  -ALEX   See a few more pieces from me: ‘I Want to Be United’: Herschel Walker Speaks Out on the FirstAmendment and a Biblical View of Reparations We Are So Pathetic: School in Virginia Considers Dropping the Wasp as Its Mascot Due…
'I Want to Be United': Herschel Walker Speaks Out on the First Amendment and a Biblical View of Reparations
https://redstate.com/alexparker/2020/07/06/herschel-walker-defund-the-police-freedom-of-speech-sins-of-ancestors-n245556
– FILE – In this March 8, 1984, file photo, New Jersey Generals owner Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Herschel Walker at a news conference in New York, after agreeing on a four-year contract. As President-elect Trump came of age as a public figure during the 1980s, he opened up...
Activists Demand University Fire All Professors Deemed ‘Racist,’ Hold Black-Only Graduation
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2020/07/06/activists-demand…professors-deemed-racist-hold-black-only-graduation-n245462
– The group —  Black Pitt — is also demanding an end to First Amendment free speech rights for all employees at the public university … It is about predisposition, elimination of protection under the First Amendment, assumption of guilt, and predetermined punishment. … As a public institution, the University of Pittsburgh is bound by the First Amendment in its decisions concerning when to discipline…
President Trump's Rushmore Speech Was Only 'Dark and Divisive' If You Actually Hate America
https://redstate.com/streiff/2020/07/05/trump-rushmore-speech-freaks-america-haters-n245359
– He remains first in our hearts to this day.  … Amendment. … A nation must care for its own citizens first.  We must take care of America first.  It’s time.  (Applause.)…
Newsom: No Singing to Worship God but Worship at the Altar of Black Lives Matter However You Want
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2020/07/03/newsom-no-singing-n245245
– effectively reached into the churches and informed them how they can and can’t worship, violating a little known law called the FirstAmendment.…
State University Memo Suggests Combatting Racism Will Now Be a Condition for Enrollment
https://redstate.com/alexparker/2020/07/01/university-colora…acism-non-negotiable-condition-enrollment-employment-n245124
– While as a public institution we must acknowledge each person’s First Amendment right to free speech, we strongly encourage anyone…
Unions Combat Economic Uncertainty by Stealing Dues
https://redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2020/07/01/unions-combat-economic-uncertainty-by-stealing-dues-n245047
– AFSCME that mandatory dues and fees in the public sector are a violation of the workers’ First Amendment rights. … They are even allowed to take over several city blocks, ban first responders from helping those with medical emergencies, and desecrate…
School Choice Scores Major SCOTUS Win as John Roberts Finally Finds a Conservative Issue He Supports
https://redstate.com/streiff/2020/06/30/school-choice-scores…berts-finally-finds-a-conservative-issue-he-supports-n244961
– Montana’s state constitution, however, contains what is known as a “Blaine amendment,” which prohibits any use of state funds to support … Most importantly, though, it is not as if the First Amendment cares. … At the time of the First Amendment’s adoption, the word “exercise” meant (much as it means today) some “[l]abour of the body,” a “[…
John Roberts' Codependent Relationship With Stare Decisis
https://redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2020/06/29/john-roberts-codependent-relationship-with-stare-decisis-n244901
– Even with 5 votes in hand, I do not think Roberts would support an “up or down” revisiting Roe as the “first bite at the apple.” … Hellerstedt COULD have been the first step — if the decision had come four years later.  … obstacle in the path of women seeking a previability abortion” and therefore violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
Progressives Dox And Target The Business Of The St. Louis Gun-Toting Couple Who Confronted Protesters
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2020/06/29/progressives-dox-and-t…st-louis-gun-toting-couple-who-confronted-protesters-n244908
– Don’t hire lawyers who will cause personal injury to innocent peaceful protesters demonstrating their first amendment right to peacefully…
Morning Briefing for January 20, 2012
https://redstate.com/erick/2012/01/20/morning-briefing-for-january-20-2012-n41905
– But it will go beyond that.I’m told reliably that Governor Perry will head up a 10th Amendment project for Speaker Gingrich to rally … For the past two weeks we have heard Mitt Romney was the first non-incumbent to win both Iowa and New Hampshire. Wrong!…
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