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  1. ACLU Breaks Its Silence on Defending the Second Amendment, Agrees to Represent the NRA at SCOTUS https://redstate.com/mdempsey/2023/12/10/aclu-has-remained-silent-on-the-second-amendment-until-now-n2167393
    While technically not a pure Second Amendment defense case per se, the case involves the NRA's First Amendment rights allegedly being … By defending the First Amendment rights of the NRA, the ACLU is also defending the Second Amendment rights of all Americans and the … Usually, the saying goes the First Amendment is backed up by the Second Amendment; though in this case, it's the reverse.…
  2. 'Fat' Has Now Become the Latest Protected Class: Why This Is a Bad Thing https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/12/10/fat-now-becoming-the-latest-protected-class-why-this-is-a-bad-thing-n2167395
    of my bad habits as legally protected. ....Colorado, America's slimmest state, where Boulder is situated, is set to become the first … While religion is protected under the First Amendment, sexual orientation is not, but if we accept the repeated claims of the left…
  3. How the Free Market Can Solve the Speech Debate on College Campuses https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/12/10/how-the-free-market-can-solve-the-speech-debate-on-college-campuses-n2167397
    The author points out that the schools in question are private institutions and are “not bound by the First Amendment.” … She also notes that “even public universities that are bound by the First Amendment are not helpless in the face of hate speech,” and…
  4. Appeals Court Ruling Upholds Election Interference Gag Order, but There's a Silver Lining for Trump https://redstate.com/beccalower/2023/12/08/appeals-court-rul…s-j6-gag-order-but-theres-a-silver-lining-for-trump-n2167345
    But the original order, she said, “sweeps in more protected speech than is necessary,” so the First Amendment required a narrower tailoring … What is becoming of our First Amendment, what is becoming of our Country? We will appeal this decision!…
  5. Hunter Biden's Interview With Moby Is Wild: Republicans Trying to 'Kill Me' to End Biden Presidency https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/12/08/hunter-bidens-int…licans-of-trying-to-kill-me-to-end-biden-presidency-n2167340
    "Elon Musk doesn't care about the God d**n First Amendment; he doesn't care about anyone but himself."…
  6. Some Thoughts From an Austinite on the Recent Spree Shooting https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/12/07/some-thoughts-on-the-austin-spree-shooting-n2167302
    But one of the first things I was taught when training with my firearm is that when seconds count, police are only minutes away. … Perhaps it will prompt more people to exercise their Second Amendment rights. … When confronted with a dangerous situation, you are your own first line of defense.  …
  7. Calvin Coolidge: an Enigmatic Conservative President, Who, Thanks to Ron DeSantis, Gets Some Credit https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2023/12/07/calvin-coolidge-a…who-thanks-to-ron-desantis-finally-got-some-credit-n2167291
    First Church helped found Howard University in 1867, and was one of the few racially integrated D.C. parishes of the era. … Coolidge was also a staunch defender of the Suffragist movement, supported the passage of the 19th Amendment, and 10 years after its … In both his first and last year in office, federal receipts were $3.8 billion and expenditures were $3.1 billion, and in between, he…
  8. Ken Paxton, Conservative Media Outlets File Suit Against the State Department Over Government Censorship https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/12/06/ken-paxton-vs-us-s…ate-department-the-horrors-of-government-censorship-n2167254
    Instead, the agency weaponized this authority to violate the First Amendment and suppress Americans’ constitutionally-protected speech … Amendment. … The First Amendment is one of our nation's great treasures.…
  9. Second Circuit Keeps Internet Memester Douglass Mackey Out of Jail and Leaves DOJ With Egg on the Face https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/12/05/second-circuit-keeps…key-out-of-jail-and-leaves-doj-with-egg-on-the-face-n2167214
    many, this seemed like a targeted political prosecution and a vindictive judge playing to the home crowd, as well as a violation of First … Amendment rights.…
  10. Siaka Massaquoi, RedState Columnist and LA County GOP Official, Arrested at Airport on J6 Misdemeanors https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2023/12/04/redstate-columnis…chair-siaka-massaquoi-arrested-for-protesting-on-j6-n2167133
    Massaquoi, who ran for the California State Assembly in 2022, currently serves as the first vice-chair of the Republican Party of Los … Wallace Tashima—affirmed the dismissal of a Fourth Amendment claim by Siaka Massaquoi, the first vice-chair of the Los Angeles County … Dismissal of his claims under the First and Fifth Amendments was previously summarily affirmed by a Ninth Circuit motions panel.…
  11. Trump's Suggestion That Government Should 'Come Down Hard' on Biased Media Is a Bad Idea https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/12/03/trumps-suggestion-that…should-come-down-hard-on-biased-media-is-a-bad-idea-n2167123
    This is not the first time Trump has made such an argument. … The First Amendment clearly safeguards freedom of speech and the press.…
  12. James Carville Comes Unglued, Rants That GOP Speaker, SCOTUS 'Bigger Threat Than Al-Qaeda' https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/12/02/james-carville-com…d-rants-that-gop-scotus-bigger-threat-than-al-qaeda-n2167092
    By contrast, the Supreme Court has confirmed the Second Amendment and returned the abortion issue to the states. … This time James Carville was the offenderDave Rubin is the first person I've seen on Maher to correct this fallacy by stating the proper…
  13. Thomas Massie Eviscerates Witness Claim That Government-Funded Censorship Is a 'Conspiracy Theory' https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/12/01/thomas-massie-eviscera…government-funded-censorship-is-a-conspiracy-theory-n2167070
    In fact, I don't even think the press or the media has more rights to the First Amendment than the general public.…
  14. Why Republicans Lose - Another View on Religion and Its Influence on Legislative Agendas https://redstate.com/mdempsey/2023/12/01/why-republicans-los…n-religion-and-its-influence-on-legislative-agendas-n2167045
    The First Amendment reads, in part, that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free … Religious freedom and political liberty were two of the main reasons why the Pilgrims left England for America in the first place.  … This would go against the very core of the First Amendment.…
  15. Former President Donald Trump Has No Immunity From Jan. 6 Lawsuits, Appeals Court Says https://redstate.com/mdempsey/2023/12/01/trump-has-no-immunity-from-jan-6-lawsuits-appeals-court-says-n2167048
    have any occasion to address his other defenses, including his claim that his alleged actions fall within the protections of the First … Amendment because they did not amount to incitement of imminent lawless action:  he did not seek appellate review at this time of … the district court’s denial of his First Amendment defense, but he could bring that issue before us in the future.  …
  16. Vicious Antisemitism in St. Louis As Pro-Hamas Protestors Steal Israeli Flag, Call to Put Jews in Trash https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2023/11/10/vicious-antisemitis…estors-steal-israeli-flag-call-to-put-jews-in-trash-n2166166
    And I'm like you — I'm a First Amendment guy. I'll protect your right to say it, even though I disagree with it.…
  17. Good News: Columbia University Drops the Hammer on Pro-Hamas Student Groups https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/11/10/columbia-university-drops-the-hammer-on-pro-hamas-student-groups-n2166169
    This appears to be the first time a university has suspended JVP, a Jewish anti-Zionist group. … Those on the anti-Israel side might argue that taking action against these groups violates their First Amendment right to freedom of…
  18. New Hampshire Takes a Second Bat at Legislation to Secede From the United States https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2023/11/09/new-hampshire-tak…bat-at-legislation-to-secede-from-the-united-states-n2166126
    The debt is at $33 trillion & rising quicklyhttps://t.co/VH0Pq7Qell — state secession (@state_secession) October 12, 2023For the first … CR CA32, that first secession bill presented in March, failed to reach this threshold. … Speaking before the Ballot Law Commission Wednesday, Steele cited the 14th Amendment of the U.S.…
  19. Thank God for the First Amendment of the United States—and I'm Looking at You, Rashida Tlaib https://redstate.com/tladuke/2023/11/09/thank-god-for-the-1s…e-united-states-and-im-looking-at-you-rashida-tlaib-n2166122
    Amendment was about speech, and the Second Amendment was about the ability to keep government from preventing you from being able … and apply it to the First?  … Amendment at the top of that list.…
  20. BREAKING: Minnesota Supreme Court Rules That Trump Will Stay on 2024 Ballot https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/11/08/breaking-minnesota-supreme-court-ruling-trump-to-stay-on-2024-ballot-n2166068
    just ruled that former President Donald Trump will remain on that state's 2024 presidential ballot, in a ruling based in part on First … Amendment arguments by the Minnesota Republican Party. … Amendment issue: But the state GOP argued that blocking Trump violates its First Amendment right of association, because doing so…
  21. Marjorie Taylor Greene Tackles Wasteful Government Spending - Slashes Pete Buttigieg's Salary to $1 https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2023/11/08/gop-tackles-waste…ending-slashes-pete-buttigiegs-salary-to-one-dollar-n2166050
    Greene took a victory lap on social media after the amendment was passed, saying: "I’m proud to announce my amendment to FIRE Pete … I’m happy my amendment passed, but he doesn’t deserve a single penny." … First, there was the airline cancelation meltdown at the height of the holiday travel season in 2022.…
  22. Texas to Spend Half a Billion in 'Carbon Reduction' Funds on Highway Projects Instead https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/11/07/texas-to-spend-hal…carbon-reduction-funds-on-highway-projects-instead-n2166017
    The Tenth Amendment would like a word. … It would certainly be more efficient and more cost-effective to not take that money from the people of the states in the first place…
  23. Jewish Guns Matter https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/11/07/jewish-guns-matter-n2166016
    The Anti-Defamation League said it recorded 312 antisemitic incidents across the United States over the first three weeks after the … They are looking to the Second Amendment to assert their right to defend their lives against aggressors regardless of their political…
  24. WATCH: Armed Homeowner Sends Robbers Running With Tails Between Their Legs https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/11/07/watch-armed-homeowner-sends-robbers-running-with-tails-between-their-legs-n2166007
    would-be home invaders from victimizing him and his family.Another situation in which a responsible citizen exercised his Second Amendment … However, there was no safety mechanism in place in the bill that required any monies generated after the first $125 million to be spent…
  25. House Judiciary Committee Releases Report on Coordinated Government/Educational Online Censorship https://redstate.com/jerrywilson/2023/11/06/house-judiciary…coordinated-governmenteducational-online-censorship-n2165987
    Agency (CISA), the EIP provided a way for the federal government to launder its censorship activities in hopes of bypassing both the First … Amendment and public scrutiny. …