Jul 3, 2020 – effectively reached into the churches and informed them how they can and can’t worship, violating a little known law called the First … Amendment.…

Jul 1, 2020 – While as a public institution we must acknowledge each person’s First Amendment right to free speech, we strongly encourage anyone…

Jul 1, 2020 – 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…

Jun 30, 2020 – 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 “[…

Jun 29, 2020 – 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…

Jun 29, 2020 – Don’t hire lawyers who will cause personal injury to innocent peaceful protesters demonstrating their first amendment right to peacefully…

Jan 20, 2012 – 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!…

Jan 26, 2012 – First it was Harry Reid’s minibus bills.  … Are they worried that there is not enough time to pass all these wonderful bills through an open amendment process on the floor? …

Feb 9, 2012 – In 1978, only three months after Proposition 13 passed in California, Michigan passed Proposal B, called The Headlee Amendment, which … Two illustrative examples come to mind from that 1982 campaign… Example the First: I had a good friend whose father was a higher…

Feb 8, 2012 – And, naturally, the amendment that would ban this practice in the future has been named the ‘Pelosi Provision’ by Republicans. … It wouldn’t be the first time that a troublesomely reformist piece of legislation got revised out of existence, while out of camera … Slaughter, it’s not exactly Eric Cantor’s fault that she was incapable of getting it passed in the first place……

Feb 6, 2012 – The first argument they will make is that the upcoming highway bill does not spend enough of your tax dollars.  … The “Public Corruption Prosecution Improvement Act” was dropped into this bill as an amendment by Senator Pat Leahy (D-VT).  …

Feb 3, 2012 – Also on this date in 1815, the world’s first commercial cheese factory was established in Switzerland, laying the groundwork for annoying … On February 3rd in 1870, the 15th Amendment was ratified, establishing that the “right of citizens of the United States to vote shall … And on February 3rd in 1913, the 16th Amendment was ratified, establishing that “Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes…

Jan 31, 2012 – The First Amendment thereof reads as follows.…

Feb 15, 2012 – decision of Judge Vaughan Walker holding that the people of the State of California violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment … That is, in fact, why we have a Ninth Amendment (“The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny … history of its enactment (two things conspicuous by their absence in Perry, as it would be laughable to suggest that the 14th Amendment…

Feb 14, 2012 – Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Anna Franzonello to discuss the controversial contraceptive mandate in Obamacare, how it violates our freedom of religion, and what legislative and legal steps are being taken to...

Feb 13, 2012 – Nancy Pelosi famously decreed that Congress must first pass ObamaCare to find out what’s in it. … These latest regulations, including the President’s ‘accommodation’ announcement, are a blatant infringement on Americans’ First Amendment … Amendment were an earmark.…

Feb 10, 2012 – And does the First Amendment apply any less to my religious beliefs. by Michael E.…

Feb 27, 2012 – The kind of women who didn’t feel it a sign of weakness to put others first and the kind of women who don’t feel that they must put … My evening dress may not be hunter orange or camouflage, but don’t assume I don’t love the Second Amendment… or that I’m not a damn…

Feb 22, 2012 – I’m not really here to provide a legal analysis of the First Amendment issue anyway.…

Feb 22, 2012 – Then House Speaker Blaine sponsored the anti-Catholic 1875 Blaine Amendment to the Constitution (defeated in the Senate but enacted … (The sixth is the first Hispanic Justice, Sonia Sotomayor).…

Mar 9, 2012 – This is not as extreme a question as it appears at first blush. … So, would that not be protected by the First Amendment? MS. … If this HHS regulation survives court challenge, we will have crossed a Rubicon and the First Amendment will never again mean what…

Mar 9, 2012 – As I noted at the time, “Blackburn’s amendment, by its own description, would have ‘reduce[d] spending by 5.5% in 8 non-securiy spending … It was the first major vote that separated the men from the boys.…

Mar 9, 2012 – designed to ensure the House GOP lived up to is “$100 billion in cuts” pledge to nowhere.As I noted at the time, “Blackburn’s amendment … Democrats in a refusal to cut the budget was House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and House Republican Whip Kevin McCarthy.It was the first…

Mar 6, 2012 – I know, it’s not as sexy as someone being called a ‘slut’, but that is what the actual amendment was about. … In fact, the rights delineated in the First Amendment are so crucial, America would not be America without them. … But what says Murkowski, who did vote for the Amendment on Thursday? Total mistake! …

Mar 5, 2012 – Let’s get the absurd slut faux-outrage and the hypocrisy out of the way first, since Leftist hypocrisy and misogyny happens so often … She is an enemy of the First Amendment, enemy of the truth, enemy of individual liberty and is harmful to all especially women.…