Results for: First Amendment

BREAKING: Colorado Supreme Court Votes to Boot Trump Off the Ballot Using the 14th Amendment
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/12/19/breaking-colorado-supr…boot-trump-off-the-ballot-using-the-14th-amendment-n2167749
– Donald Trump should be removed from the state’s presidential primary ballot for the 2024 election based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment … The court put its ruling on hold until Jan. 4, so Trump can first seek review from the Supreme Court. … In other states, similar efforts to remove Trump using the 14th Amendment have been shot down.…
Self-Avowed Christian Nationalist Romps to 11-Point Win in Oklahoma Special State Senate Election
https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/12/17/self-avowed-christia…point-win-in-oklahoma-special-state-senate-election-n2167661
– The First Amendment prohibition on the establishment of religion only applied to the federal government, with several states maintaining … The purpose of the First Amendment was to prevent any Christian denomination — the target was explicitly the Anglican Church because … When he ran for first vice president of the SBC, SBC President Ray Barber lambasted him for his views.…
California Ski Resort to Place Statue of Virgin Mary Atop Butte - Usual Suspects Outraged
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/12/17/california-ski-res…place-statue-of-virgin-mary-usual-suspects-outraged-n2167659
– Oh, sure, the people who are complaining have First Amendment rights as well and are free to whinge about the proposed statue. … Here's the thing a lot of folks have a hard time understanding: The First Amendment applies to everyone. … Speaking as a guy with no dog in this religious fight but also as a staunch First Amendment advocate, I hope the Mt.…
Destroying the Satanist Altar in Iowa's State Capitol Was a Righteous and Virtuous Response to Evil
https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/12/17/destroying-the-satan…pitol-was-a-righteous-and-virtuous-response-to-evil-n2167654
– I am guided by the First Amendment of the US Constitution. … I'm not even sure that Satanism qualifies as a religion under the First Amendment.  … There is no binding precedent stating that anti-blasphemy laws violate the First Amendment.…
Jonathan Turley Has a Few Things to Say About Eric Swalwell Helping Hunter Biden Blow Off Subpoena
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/12/16/jonathan-turley-h…ric-swalwell-helping-hunter-biden-blow-off-subpoena-n2167630
– He said: As first reported by the Washington Examiner, Swalwell used his official position to reserve the space for the press conference … Indeed, in 2021 Swalwell sponsored a resolution exploring whether dozens of Republican colleagues could be expelled under the 14th Amendment
Supreme Court Allows Illinois' Semi-Automatic Weapons Ban to Stand, but the Fight Isn't Over Yet
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/12/15/supreme-court-allows-i…ic-weapons-ban-to-stand-but-the-fight-isnt-over-yet-n2167596
– Republican, and like-minded gun-owners who brought the lawsuit had earlier waived their claims that the law infringes on the Second Amendment … The Second Amendment claim is alive, however, in several federal lawsuits filed in southern Illinois, later consolidated and awaiting … When Illinois first passed the ban, over half of the state’s sheriffs indicated that they would refuse to enforce it, meaning that…
That Controversial Satan Statue in the Iowa Capitol Building Just Got Beheaded
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/12/14/the-controversial-sa…atue-in-the-iowa-capitol-building-has-been-beheaded-n2167566
– but none of the founders would have considered government sanction of Satanic altars inside Capitol buildings as protected by the FirstAmendment. … Better yet, they would have never allowed it to be put up in the first place.…
Public Employees Leaving Their Unions in Record Numbers
https://redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2023/12/14/public-employees-leaving-their-unions-in-record-numbers-n2167538
First, unions began adopting a so-called “escape window” policy stating that the union will process a worker’s request to exercise … his or her First Amendment rights of free speech and association during an arbitrary, union-established period of days or weeks every … The Freedom Foundation worked directly with the lawmakers in those states, with Arkansas becoming the first to sign a measure into…
ACLU Suing D.C. Transit Authority for 'Selective Censorship' Against Christian Organization
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/12/13/aclu-suing-dc-transit…selective-censorship-against-christian-organization-n2167509
– The plaintiff alleges that WMATA is violating its First Amendment rights and displaying anti-Christian bias in its refusal to allow … WMATA must support the freedoms provided in the First Amendment rather than silence Americans through censorship.” … In this case, they are standing on principle, taking the government to task for ignoring the First Amendment.…
House Republicans Reject Speaker Johnson's 'Queen of the Hill' Plan for Surveillance Reforms
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/12/12/house-republicans-reje…ons-queen-of-the-hill-plan-for-surveillance-reforms-n2167463
– Speaker Johnson has come under fire for his perceived inability to make a decision on FISA: First, he announced a short-term extension … was found to have spied on almost 120,000 Americans without a warrant, which many viewed as an egregious violation of the Fourth Amendment
Christian Teachers Barred From California Classroom Over Gender Policy
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/12/11/christian-teachers-barred-from-classroom-over-gender-policy-n2167440
– This confrontation highlights concerns about First Amendment rights and the effort to indoctrinate children into leftist gender ideology … From a First Amendment perspective, the district’s policy is quite problematic. … The First Amendment not only protects the right to voice one’s opinions openly, but it also protects them from being compelled to make…
Confiscated Guns 'Not Destroyed' - A Study in Deceptive Headlines and Ignorance
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/12/11/confiscated-guns-n…troyed-a-study-in-deceptive-headlines-and-ignorance-n2167422
First of all, as I've said many times, there's no such thing as "gun violence." That's a cynical and dishonest deflection. … Those of us who are involved in the Second Amendment debate are used to politicians blathering about firearms when they lack the requisite…
Media Thinks Lawsuit Against Fox Is Great, Until They Get Owned and Have to Defend Fox
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/05/19/liberals-think-la…y-get-owned-and-have-to-defend-the-network-they-hate-n137632
– What a way to not have transparency or First Amendment rights for that matter. … Fox is fighting back saying this is a danger to the First Amendment. … The organizations argued that Fox was entitled to the First Amendment protections.…
Superheroes In America: Power Is All That Matters Absent Moral Consensus
https://redstate.com/clint-fargeau/2020/05/19/superheroes-in…merica-power-all-that-matters-absent-moral-consensus-n137581
– The government was to keep out of engineering morality –hence the First-Amendment prohibition against government interference with…
Federal Judge Issues TRO on NC Church Gathering Limits: 'There Is No Pandemic Exception to the Constitution'
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2020/05/16/federal-judge…imits-there-is-no-pandemic-exception-to-constitution-n137382
– said unequivocally that “There is no pandemic exception to the Constitution of the United States or the Free Exercise Clause of the FirstAmendment.”…
Biden Campaign and Media Make CBS' Catherine Herridge a Public Enemy After She Dared to Report On Obamagate
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2020/05/15/biden-campaign-and-m…public-enemy-after-she-dared-to-report-on-obamagate-n137282
– (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)   Remember when attacking the press was a grave attack on the First Amendment, worthy of being met with ridicule…
Adam Goldman of NYT Writes Inane Article on Gen. Flynn Case -- 3rd Pulitzer a Given
https://redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2020/05/13/adam-goldman…es-another-highly-dubious-anti-flynn-article-for-nyt-n137099
– We are dealing with the defendant’s right to a fair trial mandated by the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution … First, in advance of trial, and perhaps during the course of a trial as well, the prosecutor must decide what, if anything, he should…
A Washington Cop Has Been Put on Leave for Standing Up for Your Rights, and He Deserves Your Utmost Attention
https://redstate.com/alexparker/2020/05/12/greg-anderson-sea…liberty-constitutional-rights-fired-leave-terminated-n137024
– “Fourth Amendment violations — illegal traffic stops to check for papers? What are you, the Gestapo? Is this 1930’s Nazi Germany? … You’re not mentally or physically ready for combat in the first place.…
Mary McCord and the Federal Bureau of Purposes -- NYT Op-Ed or The Onion?
https://redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2020/05/11/834832-n136828
First, I took a hard look at the Lawfareblog trio of Ben Wittes, Quinta Jurecic, and Susan Hennessey.  … First, she registers her objection to the use by DOJ of a statement she gave in mid-2017 to SCO investigators. … Nor does the motion claim that the interview was the fruit of a search or seizure that violated the Fourth Amendment.”…
Federal Judge Dismisses Nick Sandmann's Lawsuit Against the Washington Post
https://redstate.com/streiff/2019/07/26/federal-judge-dismisses-nick-sandmanns-lawsuit-washington-post-n111729
– judge also ruled that the newspaper used language that was “loose, figurative,” and “rhetorical hyperbole” which is protected by the FirstAmendment.…
"They Don't Want Solutions": Watch as Dan Crenshaw Again Exposes the Open Borders Position of Democrats
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2019/07/22/dont-want-sol…dan-crenshaw-exposes-open-borders-position-democrats-n111344
– But first, some recent history: Earlier this month Crenshaw pointed out how the Democratic position on the current border crisis had … Watch video of this segment of the interview below: Crenshaw also recently pushed for an amendment that would allow for crime…
Commonsense Gun Control is Nazism
https://redstate.com/davenj1/2019/07/20/commonsense-gun-control-nazism-n111238
– This was written before the Second Amendment was proposed, written, and ratified.   … Despite the lessons of history, Germany was the first country to gladly go along.   … It is the Second Amendment that stands in the way of the Weimar Republic- American style.  …
How Soon Will It Be Before The New York Times Calls For Restricting Our Freedom of Speech?
https://redstate.com/kentucky_dana/2019/08/07/soon-will-new-york-times-calls-restricting-freedom-speech-n112604
– “The big nuance between the First Amendment and the European texts is that the European texts allow for possible limitations” on speech … That Mrs Clinton did not like the First Amendment is made obvious by the fact that she pledged to have introduced a constitutional … There are, of course, the leftists on social media calling for restrictions on both our First and Second Amendment rights, claiming…
FBI Lothario Peter Strzok Sues For Reinstatement and Back Pay
https://redstate.com/streiff/2019/08/06/fbi-lothario-peter-strzok-sues-reinstatement-back-pay-n112467
– Specifically, Strzok’s lawsuit accuses the agencies of violating his First and Fifth Amendment rights by firing him over the texts … And because the FBI never asserted that Strzok violated the Hatch Act, Strzok’s speech was protected under the First Amendment, the…
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