Results for: First Amendment
What's At Stake in Today's Health Care Vote
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Voters first gave them the House immediately following the passage of Obamacare. … First, waivers for states to opt-out of the pre-existing condition requirement, and second, waivers for states to opt out of the provision … However, with one dumb comment from President Trump — throw in a moving story from Jimmy Kimmel while you’re at it — another amendment…
Watercooler 5/3: Open Thread - The Contract Reassessed, May '17 Edition
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Billet, 1778; Empire State Bldg. dedicated, 1931; Amtrak takes the throttles on passenger rail, 1971
Tuesday, 5/2: King James Bible first … e-mail spam, 1978
Thursday, 5/4: Rhode Island first colony to break with King George, 1776; Panama Canal groundbreaking, 1904; Battle … of the Coral Sea, 1942
Friday, 5/5: Battle of the Wilderness, 1864; Tchaikovsky opens Carnegie Hall, 1891; Alan Shepard first American…
Comey-Sasse Exchange: WikiLeaks Endangers American Lives, A Conduit For Russian Intelligence
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educate a public, and instead just becomes about intelligence porn, frankly, just pushing out information … without regard to the First … Amendment values that normally underlie press reporting, and simply becomes a conduit for the Russian intelligence services … just…
CNN Pushes Back Against Trump Campaign, RNC Claims Of Censorship
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Trump for President campaign released a video to mark the accomplishments of Trump in his first 100 days, and to lay the path for reelection … Freedom of speech is a hallmark of our nation’s founding, and it is concerning that CNN, who I assume to be a strong supporter of the first … amendment, would stifle speech that they disagree with,” McDaniel said in a statement.…
Ann Coulter, Now Brett Stephens - Do We Have a Free Speech Crisis or Is it Something Else?
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Now Brett Stephens’ first column at the New York Times has hysterical leftists cancelling their subscriptions because he dared express … Maybe it’s the Cold War kid in me, but when I think of people being deprived of the rights described in the first amendment, I think…
The White House Correspondent’s Dinner: The Failure of Self-Awareness
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At every seat at tonight’s WHCD: First Amendment lapel pins. … really about pic.twitter.com/BBksm8FGYd
— Tal Kopan (@TalKopan) April 30, 2017
The press needed to be reminded about The First … Amendment?…
Starbucks 'Unicorn' Drinks Violate the 8th Amendment
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No, I’m not joking — forget the fact that I know the 8th amendment, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, only applies to … So first-run and edgy. … On the left, the first half is with the blue powder and the top with the pink.…
With One Quote, Bob Woodward Illuminates Media Hypocrisy Related to Trump
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Focus on how President Obama and his administration did “assault” the first amendment. Not with a speech. Not with tweets.…
VIDEO: Democrat Lawmaker Wastes Time On House Floor Defending Hateful Anti-Police "Art"
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Clay’s premise was that removing the painting after it had hung in the underground hallway for months was a violation of the First … Amendment. … “He has also been deprived of the honor of listing his first place victory in the congressional office art competition on his resume…
NSA Halts Backdoor Surveillance of Americans's Email
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Privacy advocates have argued that the practice skirted or overstepped the Fourth Amendment. … First, the government could reintroduce parallel construction tactics to obscure the potential role in Section 702 in an investigation … The last graf of my first pullquote says this is not related to the current unmasking kerfuffle.…
Donald Trump Gives the Media an Aneurysm at the NRA Convention
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President Trump spoke at the NRA today, the first president since Ronald Reagan to do so for reasons that I simply can’t fathom. … He gave a solid pro-Second-Amendment speech, which was to be expected, but what really got the attention of the left was this:…
New Federal Lawsuit Challenges CA's "Large Capacity" Magazine Confiscation Scheme
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However, and as alleged further below…the first two of these purported options are illusory, as they do not reflect viable means of … “Not only does the ban infringe on Second Amendment rights, but it is clearly now a taking of private property. … Becerra, is supported by The Calguns Foundation, Firearms Policy Coalition, Firearms Policy Foundation, and Second Amendment Foundation…
Reasonable, Rational, Lawful AGs Stage an Intervention for NY’s Radical Schneiderman
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Which not only isn’t a crime – it’s a First Amendment-protected freedom-of-speech activity. … “The authors of the amicus believe the pursuit of Exxon violates the First Amendment of the U.S Constitution and constitutes an ‘unconstitutional … Oh – and these eleven AGs are not the first people to sue out-of-control Schneiderman.
Anything else from the eleven AGs?…
Mike Flynn Gets His Well Earned Senate Subpoena
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This is the first time the Intelligence Committee has used its subpoena power since the joint inquiry into the terrorist attacks … of Sept. 11, 2001, and it’s the first time it has subpoenaed documents since the 1970s, a Senate historian told NBC News. … If he doesn’t lawyer up and wrap himself in a kevlar version of the Fifth Amendment, he’s a moron.…
A Sad Goodbye to Our Friend and Colleague, Bob Owens
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I first “met” Bob through Twitter when we were part of a group working on a project to offer weekend firearms training workshops for … I could always count on him to share his knowledge on Second Amendment, gun gear, and use of force topics – or to join me in mocking…
EUREKA! If We Just Had Government-Run Facebook, All Would Be Well
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That would be a violation of the First Amendment, would it not? … else posts from being seen by like-minded people, and on a website paid for by taxpayer money, this does become a discussion of the First … Amendment.…
When Clarence Thomas Talks, People Should Listen
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honest: Given his tenure on the Supreme Court for the past 25+ years, I’d forgotten that Thomas started his legal career in Missouri, first … versus the structural protections contained within the Constitution itself – the separation of powers, the checks and balances, the amendment … In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government…
Justin Amash Is Not Standing For Paul Ryan's Nonsense
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When Republican leaders first unveiled the American Health Care Act, a Democratic friend and colleague joked to me that the bill wasn … It is an amendment to the ACA that deliberately maintains Obamacare’s framework.…
Was President Trump's Religious Liberty Order Worthless? Not in the Long Run.
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liberty protections, section II states that the Administration is ordering the Treasury Department not to enforce the Johnson Amendment … The Johnson Amendment would have to be repealed by Congress, which Congress should do immediately, and section III recommends a “softening … I applaud the Trump Administration for taking a necessary first step toward religious liberty protections with the President’s order…
Some Conservative Voices Underwhelmed By Trump's Religious Liberties Executive Order
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First, the bluster:
At a Rose Garden ceremony Thursday, Trump declared that the “threat against the faith community is over.” … And the portion that addresses the Johnson Amendment? … “The answer to the Johnson Amendment… is to either repeal the statute or overturn it in court,” French wrote.…
Legal Battle Ensues After School Punishes Students for 'Liking' Racist Social Media Posts
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Schools have broad authority under federal law to limit speech at school that they consider disruptive, according to First Amendment…
SCOTUS: Gerrymandering Is Fine; Except When Republicans Do It
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into why challenges have repeatedly been mounted regarding their boundaries:
The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment … When the Court takes up a voting district challenge such as this, it engages in a two-step analysis: First, voters challenging district…
A Picture Says More Than a Thousand Words About CA Politician's Hypocrisy [VIDEO]
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Noted Second Amendment…uh, supporter. … question for Reid on behalf of the people who couldn’t be there today because they were murdered – but had to call him a murderer first…
Oh, By the Way, Trump Apparently Also Asked Comey to Lock Up Reporters
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Trump wants to silence reporters by locking them up, then all this talk about political correctness means nothing because it’s all a First … Amendment issue.…
In Their Zeal to Have a Gotcha Moment, Fox News Blows It on Criticism of NY Times
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CNN and other mainstream outlets cover the Trump administration as opposed to the Obama administration is all the rage through the first … On Thursday, he credited Circa for being the first to obtain the documents related to the NSA story, and then said this about the amount … Privacy advocates have argued that the practice skirted or overstepped the Fourth Amendment.…