Results for First Amendment

  1. 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.…
  2. 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 First … Amendment 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…
  3. 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 First … Amendment rights in service of keeping the public fooled about the politics of civil servants.…
  4. 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.”…
  5. 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 amendment … First, 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…
  6. 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…
  7. 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.…
  8. 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…
  9. 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 First … Amendment rights of all.…
  10. 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.…
  11. 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…
  12. 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…
  13. 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.…
  14. 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…
  15. Trump Administration Loses Skirmish With 'Alt-Gov' Twitter Resistance https://redstate.com/jimjamitis/2017/04/07/trump-administration-loses-skirmish-alt-gov-twitter-resistance-n70270
    Twitter’s defense: the First Amendment. … “The rights of free speech afforded Twitter’s users and Twitter itself under the First Amendment of the U.S.…
  16. Watercooler 4/5 Open Thread: The Contract Reassessed, April '17 Edition https://redstate.com/diamondback/2017/04/05/watercooler-45-the-contract-reassessed-april-17-edition-n70106
    Last Week In History Sunday, 3/26: Fitzgerald’s first novel published, 1920; Salk announces polio vaccine, 1953; Camp David Accords … signed, 1979 Monday, 3/27: Congress establishes permanent Navy and authorizes first six frigates, 1794; Anchorage earthquake, 1964 … major RR abandoned in-toto, 1957 Thursday, 3/30: Ether first used as anesthetic, 1842; Alaska bought from Russia, 1867; Reagan shot…
  17. Teacher Who Perpetrated 'Empty Shelves' Hoax to Attack DeSantis Gets His Just Deserts https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/02/18/teacher-who-perpetra…helves-hoax-to-attack-desantis-gets-his-just-deserts-n705528
    Of course, advocacy groups are treating Covey as a victim, arguing his First Amendment rights were violated. … Amendment rights. … You do not have a First Amendment right to take video at work in order to mislead and lie about your employer (in this case, partially…
  18. Judge's Take-Down of Kathy Hochul's 'Hate Speech' Law Is Important and Satisfying https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/02/18/judges-take-down-of…hochuls-hate-speech-law-is-important-and-satisfying-n705471
    According to Judge Carter (Breitbart), that was a no-go given the protections afforded by the First Amendment. … I think we can speculate on that given the breakneck pace at which liberals have shifted away from respect for the First Amendment. … In other words, this law sure seemed like a giant first step in outright criminalizing speech, by proxy at first with an eye toward…
  19. Second Amendment Sanctuary Movement Takes a Serious Blow, but It Isn’t Over Yet https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/02/16/second-amendment-sanct…y-movement-takes-a-serious-blow-but-it-isnt-over-yet-n704820
    But it recently took what might be significant defeat after an activist judge in Oregon overturned a Second Amendment sanctuary measure … This whacko judge is saying that those who value the Second Amendment are motivated by racism. … Fox News noted that this ruling is the first legal defeat for the Second Amendment sanctuary movement.…
  20. Federal Judge Slaps Down New York Governor’s Effort to Attack Free Speech on Social Media https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/02/16/federal-judge-slaps-do…vernors-effort-to-attack-free-speech-on-social-media-n704319
    be a good idea to get in touch with her inner authoritarian and try to force online platforms to police speech since that pesky First … Amendment disallows the government to engage in such an undertaking. … Amendment.…
  21. A Good Start: Microsoft Has Removed Conservative Sites From Its Advertising Blacklist https://redstate.com/joesquire/2023/02/13/a-good-start-micro…ed-conservative-sites-from-its-advertising-blacklist-n703004
    However, it’s the inclusion of State Department dollars that takes this from just corporate scandal to an actual First Amendment issue…
  22. FBI Rescinds 'Intelligence Report' Linking Traditionalist Catholics With Violence but That Isn't Enough https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/02/10/fbi-rescinds-intelli…onalist-catholics-with-violence-but-that-isnt-enough-n701825
    constitutional rights of all Americans and will never conduct investigative activities or open an investigation based solely on First … Amendment protected activity.”…
  23. Hyperpartisanship Empowers Our Government to Embrace Corruption https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/02/10/hyperpartisanship-empowers-our-government-to-embrace-corruption-n701409
    House Republicans’ subcommittee to investigate the weaponization of the Justice Department held its first hearing on Thursday. … “Although FBI employees have their first amendment rights, they are not at the liberty to allow their personal political views or preferences … Stacey Plaskett (D-VI), the top-ranking Democrat on the panel, excoriated Republicans for forming the subcommittee in the first place…
  24. Free Speech Also Applies to Our Enemies https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/02/28/free-speech-also-applies-to-our-enemies-n709749
    has figured prominently in this debate, and now there are troubling indications that those who claim to value the spirit of the First … Amendment have become willing to dabble in their own form of censorship. … In the letter, FIRE and NCAC reminded the university that it is a public entity that is subject to the protections of the First Amendment…
  25. RedState Celebrates Black History Month: African Americans' Relationship With Guns With Rhonda Mary https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/02/28/redstate-celebrates-bl…an-americans-relationship-with-guns-with-rhonda-mary-n709645
    Indeed, these people feared the idea of blacks owning weapons so much that the first gun control laws were specifically intended to … Many, like myself, became first-time gun owners. … though Democrats seek to disarm the public – especially in black communities, people still understand the importance of the Second Amendment…