Results for: First Amendment

Skinny on SCOTUS - The Early May Edition
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2025/05/21/skinny-on-scotus-the-early-may-edition-n2189259
– Two seconds passed between the moment Felix stepped on the doorsill and the moment he fired his first shot.Barnes’s mother sued Felix … on Barnes’s behalf, alleging that Felix violated Barnes’s Fourth Amendment right against excessive force. … and remanded.A claim that a law enforcement officer used excessive force during a stop or arrest is analyzed under the Fourth Amendment…
Warning: California Is About to Gamble Billions on Another Housing Financial Sinkhole
https://redstate.com/redstate-guest-editorial/2025/05/22/war…mble-billions-on-another-housing-financial-sinkhole-n2189421
– First, there’s the matter of financial liability. … alone underwriting risk — is not just questionable, it’s reckless.Moreover, SB 750 can’t even proceed without a constitutional amendment…
Heads Explode As Pete Hegseth Hosts an Evangelical Prayer Meeting in the Pentagon Auditorium
https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/05/22/heads-explode-as-pet…angelical-prayer-meeting-in-the-pentagon-auditorium-n2189441
– “This is a blatant violation of the First Amendment and its proscription of religion in government,” says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie…
President Trump Signs 'Take It Down Act' - and Invites Someone Else to Do Likewise
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/05/19/president-trump-si…it-down-act-and-invites-someone-else-to-do-likewise-n2189306
– As first ladies do, she took on a cause, that being cyber-bullying; being married to President Trump, she has come in for no small … major legislative success.For a first lady to add her signature is highly unusual - it is the president that signs bills into law … The bill conforms to current First Amendment jurisprudence by requiring that computer-generated NCII meet a “reasonable person” test…
New Interview With Authors of Biden Book Reveals More Shocking Info, Who They Hold to Blame
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/05/20/new-more-revelations-from-tapper-book-and-new-cbs-interview-n2189324
–  📚 Axios' Alex Thompson and CNN's Jake Tapper joined @CBSMornings for their first joint interview on "the book everyone is talking … They already have something in place - the 25th Amendment, but Democrats didn't have the honesty to employ it.…
Trump Admin to Allow Forced-Reset Triggers Sales. As Usual, Legacy Media Gets It Wrong.
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/05/17/trump-admin-to-all…t-trigger-sales-as-usual-legacy-media-gets-it-wrong-n2189208
– Justice Department, as part of the settlement of a lawsuit by the National Association for Gun Rights, is reversing a policy from the first … “This Department of Justice believes that the 2nd Amendment is not a second-class right,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement … Assault Weapon' Ban Ruled Unconstitutional in Federal CourtSenator Chris Murphy: Wrong on Bump Stocks, Wrong on Guns, Wrong on 2nd Amendment…
OPINION: Erin Nealy Cox Is the Swamp’s Favorite Candidate, and Texas Patriots Should Say No
https://redstate.com/redstate-guest-editorial/2025/05/16/opi…favorite-candidate-and-texas-patriots-should-say-no-n2189191
– the savior the Establishment wants you to believe she is—she’s just another cog in the corrupt political machine that the America First … Adolf Hitler.Let’s be clear: anyone who thinks it’s acceptable to call Trump voters “anarchists,” who walks away from the America First … wants the prestige of a federal judgeship without the loyalty to the values that made this country great.This is why the America First…
SNL Actually Knocks Another One Out of the Park, This Time With the Founding Fathers
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2025/05/13/snl-actually-k…out-of-the-park-this-time-with-the-founding-fathers-n2189015
– After they complete the First Amendment, they start asking which right they should move onto next.Enter Walton Goggins' character " … The Founding Father at the desk asks what posterity will say if they simply enshrine "guns" as the Second Amendment. … You know... what it was supposed to be doing in the first place.…
Thursday Morning Minute: Setting SCOTUS Expectations
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2025/05/15/thursday-morning-minute-n2189111
– in this case.After Blaming Trump, Pete Buttigieg Implicated in Washington National Air Traffic Control ScandalWas putting "safety first … repeating: The issue before the court today is NOT the merits of birthright citizenship and whether it's guaranteed by the 14th Amendment…
Conservative WV US Senate Candidate Makes Mincemeat of Claim by Elitist Ex-NPR CEO on Rural Red Staters
https://redstate.com/beccalower/2025/05/11/gop-wv-us-senate…elitist-claim-by-ex-npr-ceo-about-rural-red-staters-n2188957
– What Happened When PBS Met With Him Over Funding ConcernsMommy Needs a Valium: NPR CEO Says Trump Defunding Order a Violation of First … Amendment RightsBut that wasn't all Schiller said, and what she went on to bloviate about will likely lose any credibility for her…
When Media Defenders Behind the World Press Freedom Index Also Deliver Misinformation, You Need to Laugh
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2025/05/10/when-media-defend…index-also-deliver-misinformation-you-need-to-laugh-n2188904
– Unsurprisingly the European countries dominate their list, with the first non-Euro entrant seen at #16, New Zealand. … this idiocy:_________After a century of gradual expansion of press rights in the United States, the country is experiencing its first … That is a detail we are never told, nor are we told of this other jeopardy.The First Amendment to the US Constitution provides broad…
'Botched' South Carolina Execution Draws Scrutiny
https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/05/10/botched-south-carolina-execution-draws-scrutiny-n2188906
–  First, anti-death penalty lawyers have pushed hard to create a doctrine that says executions must produce instantaneous, painless … The Supreme Court ruled that the Eighth Amendment did not apply and the state was entitled to another go, and this time, it was successful …  Things change, and our imperial judiciary has expanded the clear meaning of the Eighth Amendment into something no one would…
In a Public Broadcasting Paradox, PBS, NPR Demand to Be Both Independent and Government-Subsidized
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2025/05/08/public-broadcast…owance-in-the-call-to-be-left-alone-and-independent-n2188853
–  But what Capehart is leaning on is the vacuous claim that this call to defund is a First Amendment violation, while it is nothing … That is an affront to the First Amendment. We have an independent newsroom, and we will always have an independent newsroom. … From my perspective, part of the separation of the First Amendment offers is to keep government out.…
The DOJ Goes to War As Washington State Declares War on Confession, the First Amendment
https://redstate.com/joesquire/2025/05/05/the-doj-goes-to-wa…tate-declares-war-on-confession-the-first-amendment-n2188727
– Tomorrow, it could be worship services, hiring practices, or religious speech.Why the First Amendment Comes FirstThis trend is something … That’s why the First Amendment doesn’t just protect free speech—it protects the free exercise of religion. … , Protestant, Jew, Muslim, or none of the above—to speak up.The First Amendment is not a suggestion.…
Friday Morning Minute: 'A New Pope'
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2025/05/09/friday-morning-minute-n2188868
– of Trump AppearanceThis is exactly how Republicans need to handle this sort of childish wokeness from the "resistance" to America First … We didn't know what Francis' would be like when he first assumed the role. … the world is on viewing things through a left-right lens these days), I just want to take a moment to note my appreciation for: first…
Mommy Needs a Valium: NPR CEO Says Trump Defunding Order a Violation of First Amendment Rights
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2025/05/04/trump-eo-defunding-npr-has-its-ceo-in-a-twist-n2188681
– Then Maher, who could not have cared less about the First Amendment when NPR whistleblower Uri Berliner pulled back the curtain on … the news organization, now cares about First Amendment rights being violated.This is not about balancing the federal budget. …  As our sister site Townhall wrote:Of course, NPR responded by making it a free speech and First Amendment issue. It’s not.…
Essex Files: Trump’s Gulf Gambit - 'Persian' to 'Arabian,' a Name Change to Sweeten Saudi Soirée
https://redstate.com/brad-essex/2025/05/07/essex-filestrumps…an-to-arabian-a-name-change-to-sweeten-saudi-soiree-n2188772
– in favor of the outlet, affirming that media outlets are protected from government retaliation over editorial choices under the First … Amendment.…
Should the President Suspend Habeas Corpus for Illegal Aliens?
https://redstate.com/dan-zoernig/2025/05/07/should-the-president-suspend-habeas-corpus-for-illegal-aliens-n2188769
– Under the 5th Amendment, it would seem that they are.Aliens “who have once passed through our gates, even illegally,” are afforded … the equal protection of the laws.Now, it would seem to me that because the second sentence in the above follows right after the first … But it says what it says, and I don't like it when the anti-gunners start presuming things about the Second Amendment, militias only…
What Is the Second Amendment and Why Is It Important Today?
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/05/01/what-is-the-second-amendment-and-why-is-it-important-today-n2188575
– The First Amendment, like all of the Bill of Rights, defines - does not grant, but defines and guarantees - fundamental natural rights.The … shouters of the first portion, the notorious "militia clause." … Amendment is, today, as important as ever.…
New: President Trump Revoking Harvard's Tax-Exempt Status
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/05/02/new-president-trump-revoking-harvards-tax-exempt-status-n2188607
– university announced that it filed a suit against the Trump administration, claiming that the administration was violating the school’s First … Amendment rights.This will almost certainly prompt yet another tiresome lawsuit from Harvard.…
Supreme Court Poised to Okay First Ever Religious Charter School
https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/05/01/supreme-court-poised-to-okay-first-ever-religious-charter-school-n2188550
– A majority of the Supreme Court signaled Wednesday that they will allow the creation of the nation's first overtly religious charter … The ban is rooted in the anti-Catholic Blaine Amendment added to Oklahoma's constitution in 1907.This set up an interesting conflict … First off, it will mean the thirty-eight Blaine Amendment states can no longer use that to block religious schools from applying for…
The Press Is Moving on to Their Next Deportation Martyr, and Signs Indicate He Is Another Troubled Figure
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2025/05/02/the-press-is-movi…yr-and-signs-indicate-he-is-another-troubled-figure-n2188616
– Mahdawi is already being positioned as a wrongfully detained resident, taken into custody for merely expressing his First Amendment…
Friday Morning Minute: Man of Many Hats
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2025/05/02/friday-morning-minute-n2188601
– It's a damn good start.Ripped From The (30 Year Old) HeadlinesControversial as Trump's first 100 days have been, the Democrat are in …  Vice President JD Vance has a new op-ed out in the Washington Post, detailing "What President Trump achieved in his first 100 … First, the administration will likely appeal, and I think they've got a decent shot at being successful on that front.…
Whistleblower Seeks Legal Action Against Phi Theta Kappa for Squashing Her Free Speech
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/04/29/whistleblower-seek…ainst-phi-theta-kappa-for-squashing-her-free-speech-n2188485
– Trump AdminFacebook Whistleblower Testimony Before Senate Subcommittee on Meta and China Promises to Be ExplosiveThere is also a First … Amendment issue here, as noted by the Freedom of the Press Foundation.The First Amendment prohibits prior restraints in all but the …  The Court has also repeatedly affirmed the First Amendment right to publish lawfully obtained, truthful information on matters…
Why an Official Language Matters
https://redstate.com/dan-zoernig/2025/04/30/why-an-official-language-matters-n2188500
– When I showed up for my first day, the guy I was replacing told me not to unpack my bags because within several months, they were moving … Amendment without limiting it to one language. … Well, first of all, I hope that someone informs Roman that the Founders never thought diversity would be America's greatest strength…
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