Results for: First Amendment

An NRA Board Member Takes on the NRA
https://redstate.com/erick/2010/06/17/an-nra-board-member-takes-on-the-nra-n35166
Amendment protections are subject to negotiation. … The Second Amendment surely cannot be far behind. . . .The [Disclose] act serves notice on certain speakers that their involvement … There is no room under the First Amendment for Congress to make deals on political speech, whether with the NRA or anyone else.…
Morning Briefing for June 17, 2010
https://redstate.com/erick/2010/06/17/morning-briefing-for-june-17-2010-n35162
– NRA claims it is a single issue organization solely focused on the second amendment.If that is true, why is the NRA dabbling in a firstamendment issue?…
The National Rifle Association's Excuse Holds No Water
https://redstate.com/erick/2010/06/16/the-national-rifle-associations-excuse-holds-no-water-n35160
– of the First Amendment. … The NRA stands absolutely obligated to its members to ensure maximum access to the First Amendment, in order to protect and preserve … the freedom of the Second Amendment.”Oh, so they are a two issue organization — defending the second amendment by using the first
An Inconvenient Truth: Bob Bennett and Tim Bridgewater Together
https://redstate.com/erick/2010/06/16/an-inconvenient-truth-bob-bennett-and-tim-bridgewater-together-n35150
First, as I said back them, Bennett and Bridgewater struck a deal to throw support to Bridgewater should Bennett lose. … “Instead, I am just a two-bit, wannabe political consultant, contacted by some Utah folks wanting to exercise their First Amendment
The Wall Street Journal Takes the NRA to Task For Its Sell Out to the Left
https://redstate.com/erick/2010/06/16/the-wall-street-journal-takes-the-nra-to-task-for-its-sell-out-to-the-left-n35148
– Cutting a special deal at the expense of the First Amendment with lawmakers who have decided for now to stop gutting the Second Amendment … Get a load of this: The most potent defense of the Second Amendment requires the most adamant exercise of the First Amendment. … This is clearly not about “ensur[ing] maximum access to the First Amendment.”…
Morning Briefing for June 16, 2010
https://redstate.com/erick/2010/06/16/morning-briefing-for-june-16-2010-n35141
– National Rifle Association’s First Amendment Sellout 4. To Democrats, Words Are More Dangerous Than Physical Violence 5. … National Rifle Association’s First Amendment Sellout he National Rifle Association just sold out your First Amendment right to participate … Upon first watching the interview, I saw it a big story and was determined to make it go viral.…
National Rifle Association's First Amendment Sellout
https://redstate.com/rs_insider/2010/06/15/national-rifle-associations-first-amendment-sellout-n35134
– The National Rifle Association just sold out your First Amendment right to participate in the democratic process.   … A senior staffer on the Hill tells RedState that “the NRA apparently believes that the 2nd Amendment is the only constitutional amendmentAmendment applies to each and every one of us. …
Deja Vu: the NRA and the Democratic crocodiles.
https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2010/06/15/deja-vu-the-nra-and-the-democrtatic-crocodiles-n35126
– The argument, as I understand it, is that the NRA is a single-issue advocacy group; and their single-issue is the Second Amendment, … not the First. …
Yet Again the NRA Sells Out Freedom to the Democrats
https://redstate.com/erick/2010/06/14/yet-again-the-nra-sells-out-to-democrats-n35124
– I support Gun Owners of America, which is a consistent and uncompromising defender of the second amendment, not a weak little girl … If they were really committed to freedom, let alone the second amendment, they should be encouraging more freedom loving, second amendmentamendment advocate and while I’ve been open with my criticisms of him, he and I typically stand shoulder to shoulder on this issue…
This Week in Washington - June 14, 2010
https://redstate.com/brian_d/2010/06/14/this-week-in-washington-june-14-2010-n35115
– Supreme Court held that “corporate funding of independent political broadcasts in candidate elections cannot be limited under the FirstAmendment.”  … After the first vote, the succeeding votes will be 10 minute votes.…
Elena Kagan Admits She Is an Activist
https://redstate.com/hogan/2010/06/29/elena-kagan-admits-she-is-an-activist-n35324
First, the amendment process under Article 5 of the Constitution. Second, judicial activism. … Later, when discussing the First Amendment, Ms. … One is the formal amendment process.…
NRA’s Kagan Gag Order
https://redstate.com/curt_levey/2010/06/28/nras-kagan-gag-order-n35310
– Association’s management team has explicitly and directly told the NRA’s board they are prohibited from testifying about second amendment … [I]f the NRA can venture beyond its traditional agenda into the First Amendment issues implicated by the DISCLOSE Act, surely it can … weigh in on the Second Amendment issue of Elena Kagan’s gun rights record.…
Missouri Is The Concord Bridge For Obamacare Repeal
https://redstate.com/jdurbin/2010/06/28/missouri-is-the-concord-bridge-for-obamacare-repeal-n35306
– Have no doubt – this is the first shot fired against the power grab known as Obamacare.  … Missouri will be the first state to allow the public at large to voice its opinion on Obamacare.   … MHCFA represents the first battle in the war against the bureaucratic, tax-happy nightmare that has saddled Americans over the last…
This Week in Washington - June 28, 2010
https://redstate.com/brian_d/2010/06/28/this-week-in-washington-june-28-2010-n35302
– Kagan has shown strong hostility to the Second Amendment as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall, as a counsel in the Clinton Administration … Another vacancy would give President Obama an opportunity to pack the court with a third liberal justice to the Supreme Court in his first
Morning Briefing for June 28, 2010
https://redstate.com/erick/2010/06/28/morning-briefing-for-june-28-2010-n35295
– This was a first amendment issue and the NRA gladly took a position and campaigned for its members to take a position on the DISCLOSE … Act.One of the NRA’s chief arguments was that it needed the carve out to be effective in its advocacy of Second Amendment issues. … Association’s management team has explicitly and directly told the NRA’s board they are prohibited from testifying about second amendment
NRA Issues Gag Order to Its Board Members on Elena Kagan
https://redstate.com/erick/2010/06/27/nra-issues-gag-order-to-its-board-members-on-elena-kagan-n35289
– This was a first amendment issue and the NRA gladly took a position and campaigned for its members to take a position on the DISCLOSE … Act.One of the NRA’s chief arguments was that it needed the carve out to be effective in its advocacy of Second Amendment issues. … If the NRA is really working with pro-guns Senators and Kagan is really hostile to Second Amendment rights, which she is, they will…
Today in Washington - June 24, 2010
https://redstate.com/brian_d/2010/06/24/today-in-washington-june-24-2010-n35261
– Legislation that restricts political speech in any manner is a restriction on the First Amendment rights of all Americans.…
Castle's Wet Finger Doesn't Like The Way The Wind Is Blowing
https://redstate.com/haystack/2010/06/23/castles-wet-finger-doesnt-like-the-way-the-wind-is-blowing-n35252
– (Note that they said nothing about that little first amendment thingy that SCOTUS relied on, in large part, to make their decision. … What they don’t say (and it takes reading the Hill article to find out) is that it’s the NRA which was first targeted in these so-called…
Today in Washington - June 23, 2010
https://redstate.com/brian_d/2010/06/23/today-in-washington-june-23-2010-n35242
– DISCLOSE Act – Expect legislation infringing on the First Amendment rights of all Americans to hit the House floor this Thursday. …
Kagan’s Premeditated Murder
https://redstate.com/radicallyright/2010/06/21/kagans-premeditated-murder-n35216
– Elena Kagan, President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court is guilty of murder in the first degree.  … “Finally, Reagan both opposes the equal rights amendment and supports a constitutional amendment that would outlaw abortion unless … The first two paragraphs state the following: “President-elect Ronald Reagan died in his sleep of an apparent heart attack early…
This Week in Washington - June 21, 2010
https://redstate.com/brian_d/2010/06/21/this-week-in-washington-june-21-2010-n35203
– The Citizens United (from Washington Post) “in a 5 to 4 decision, the majority cast its ruling as a spirited defense of the First Amendment … The First Amendment confirms the freedom to think for ourselves.”  … Each vote after the first vote will be limited to 10 minutes in duration.…
The Fury of an Idiot Scorned
https://redstate.com/rs_insider/2010/07/06/the-fury-of-an-idiot-scorned-n35391
– month, has told relatives and friends he plans to stay on the high court for at least three more years – through the end of Obama’s first … and intellectually weak Kennedy would otherwise be; for even if Anthony Kennedy does not actually believe that, e.g., the Second Amendment … is incorporated against the States by virtue of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the one thing he most certainly…
Media Matters Continues Debunked Claim that Kagan is Not Hostile to 2nd Amendment
https://redstate.com/brian_d/2010/07/03/media-matters-contin…nked-claim-that-kagan-is-not-hostile-to-2nd-amendment-n35366
– They are attempting to redefine the 2nd Amendment in a manner that allows individuals like Elena Kagan to qualify as pro-Second AmendmentAmendment?  … to Second Amendment rights”?…
Fact: Kagan is Anti-Second Amendment
https://redstate.com/brian_d/2010/07/01/fact-kagan-is-anti-second-amendment-n35339
– Supreme Court is hostile to the 2nd Amendment.  That is a fact.   … Even if the first question is of no interest to Kagan — despite the fact that the Fourteenth Amendment theory advanced by the main … , like the First and Fourth, codified a pre-existing right.”…
The Consequences of Bart Stupak's Betrayal
https://redstate.com/danbenishek/2010/07/15/the-consequences-of-bart-stupaks-betrayal-n35506
– Yesterday, we learned from LifeNews.com that Pennsylvania will be the first state to receive federal funds, which their Medicaid program … Yet, when he and his coalition voted, it enabled the HC bill to pass without the all-important amendment to protect the unborn.…
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