May 7, 2017 – 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is ordering the Treasury Department not to enforce the Johnson Amendment … The Johnson Amendment would have to be repealed by Congress, which Congress should do immediately, and section III recommends a “softening … I applaud the Trump Administration for taking a necessary first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…

May 7, 2017 – 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.…

May 5, 2017 – Schools have broad authority under federal law to limit speech at school that they consider disruptive, according to First Amendment…

May 24, 2017 – 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…

May 17, 2017 – 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…

May 17, 2017 – 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.…

May 30, 2017 – 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.…

May 30, 2017 – “They have a First Amendment right to speak, but hate speech is not protected.” This is not how any of this works.…

May 30, 2017 – The Court vacated and remanded the case after holding that the Fourth Amendment provides no basis for the Ninth Circuit’s “provocation … The case involved three Fourth Amendment claims by Angel Mendez and Jennifer Garcia: a warrantless entry claim; a knock-and-announce … challenge to the government obtaining historical cell-phone location records without a warrant, and a First Amendment challenge by…

May 26, 2017 – paint a picture of an FBI with a very cavalier attitude toward regulations governing how NSA material can be used and the Fourth Amendment … Just a few snippets: Illegal accessing of information The FBI’s very first compliance report in 2009 declared it had not found … issues and thus were “overstepping” the constitutional protections designed to ensure the bureau isn’t violating Americans’ 4th Amendment…

Jun 13, 2017 – appeared in this space Friday afternoon, saying she was “investigating an allegation of censorship and the possible violation of First … Amendment rights in the high school yearbook this year.…

Jun 12, 2017 – On which We the People can exert influence – via our First Amendment right “to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.…

Jun 11, 2017 – As we observe the anniversary of the Pulse night club attack, I believe that the answer is two-fold: affirm the 2nd Amendment rights … None of us condones hate against LGBT individuals, and we view the victims of the Pulse night club first as fallen fellow Americans … Affirming the 2nd Amendment, and condemning radical Islamic terrorism and eradicating it from the earth is good for all Americans,…

Jun 7, 2017 – The Contract Assessed, June 2017 Edition Time for another look at Trump’s Contract With The American Voter, at the close of his first … visit to USSR, 1988 Tuesday, 5/30: Kansas-Nebraska Act takes effect, 1854; Ray Harroun wins first Indy 500, 1911; WWII and Korean … Aero Precision giveaways give me one bonus entry each for the first ten people who enter using my personal link.…

Jun 21, 2017 – McCain was the lead (and just about only) Republican in the anti-First Amendment “campaign finance reform” movement. … Oh – and this isn’t the first time McCain tried to help Musk in just this fashion. … Flashback to May 2016: Behold Senator John McCain’s Terrible Military Amendment: “Sen.…

Jun 20, 2017 – The First Amendment does not entrust that power to the government’s benevolence. … The First Amendment bars the government from discriminating among speakers based on their viewpoints. … Two private enterprises that depend upon the First Amendment in order to function were perfectly willing to have that right stripped…

Jun 19, 2017 – District Court, claiming the trademark board was penalizing them, in violation of their First Amendment rights. … Justices, though, said that violated the First Amendment.…

Jun 19, 2017 – I’m just going to go ahead and toss in there that our Second Amendment gives us a certain layer of protection, as well, but that’s … The new score is the first Gallup poll to measure American’s faith in the federal government’s ability to protect them from such attacks…

Jul 2, 2017 – Donald Trump is not the first president to get bad coverage from the media. … Sasse went on to express the importance of embracing the First Amendment, and those freedoms given to Americans through it: Religion … “The First Amendment is the beating heart of the American experiment. …

Jun 28, 2017 – This week, the Supreme Court ruled in the Trinity Lutheran case that it is a violation of the first amendment to deny a church an … Blaine of Maine, who tried (and failed) to create a federal Constitutional Amendment in 1875.…

Jun 28, 2017 – First of all, I have a huge problem with the way the White House has handled press briefings. … Don’t be fooled into thinking that this is some fight for the First Amendment when it’s really just media outlets who are pissed about…

Jun 26, 2017 – Amendment. … Amendment. … Tam, are encouraging signs that this Court is still very committed to the First Amendment and holding firm on the notion that the government…

Jun 26, 2017 – holding that the Department of Natural Resource’s policy violated the rights of Trinity Lutheran under the Free Exercise Clause of the First … Amendment by denying the Church an otherwise available public benefit on account of its religious status.…

Jul 12, 2017 – Duquesne (now downtown Pittsburgh), 1755; 14th Amendment ratified, 1868; Bryan’s “Cross of Gold” speech, 1893 Monday, 7/10: Louis XVI … orders France into Revolutionary War, 1778; Jackson vetoes Second Bank of the U.S., 1832; Telstar, first communications satellite … No, not the first time, not the second time and maybe not the third.…

Jul 11, 2017 – The President and other administration officials were sued by a first amendment group, the Knight First Amendment Institute in federal … The group alleges that President Trump has violated the first amendment by blocking American citizens on from his @realDonaldTrump … “The First Amendment applies to this digital forum in the same way it applies to town halls and open school board meetings. …