Results for First Amendment

  1. Will These New Gun Laws Stand up After the Bruen Decision? https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/04/30/will-these-new-gun-laws-stand-up-after-the-bruen-decision-n739261
    Supreme Court ruling that expanded Second Amendment rights. Before the ink was even dry on Gov. … These laws are supposedly aimed at addressing the rising rate of gun violence, but opponents argue that they infringe on Second Amendment … The first of these new laws raises the minimum age for buying firearms from 18 to 21.…
  2. Nearly 700 Professors Protest a Bill Requiring Students to Study the Constitution https://redstate.com/alexparker/2023/04/30/nearly-700-profes…a-bill-requiring-students-to-study-the-constitution-n739144
    Led by people apparently opposed to equity and made uncomfortable by the concept of inclusion, these anti-DEI efforts violate the First … Amendment and interfere with the unfettered pursuit of truth and enlightenment.…
  3. Elon Musk Drops the Hammer on the 'Woke Mind Virus' in Interview with Bill Maher https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/04/29/elon-musk-drops-t…on-the-woke-mind-virus-in-interview-with-bill-maher-n738661
    First of all what is the woke mind virus?" … He said that the left’s desire to censor seemed “crazy.” ” We need to be extremely concerned about anything that “undermines the First … Amendment,” Elon exclaimed.…
  4. Daytime Talk Show Legend and Former Mayor Jerry Springer, Dead at 79 https://redstate.com/beccalower/2023/04/27/daytime-talk-show-legend-and-former-mayor-jerry-springer-dead-at-79-n737966
    effort to lower the voting age in Ohio, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of ratification of the 26th Amendment … Then, there was the first controversy of Springer’s career when, it’s rumored, he got caught paying for a prostitute because he wrote … But he was a staunch advocate of the First Amendment, and allowed them to march.…
  5. WATCH: Sen. Kennedy Exposes Dems in Brilliant Grilling of Abortion Witness https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/04/27/watch-sen-kennedy…poses-dems-in-brilliant-grilling-of-abortion-witness-n737862
    “Let me clarify what the 14th amendment says in the first sentence,” Goodwin said, asking Kennedy, “Do you support our Constitution…
  6. Trans Lawmaker Sets Internet Ablaze With Bill to Remove Anti-Pedophile Language From MN Human Rights Act https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/04/26/trans-lawmaker-se…ove-anti-pedophile-language-from-mn-human-rights-act-n737429
    The language never should have been included in the statutory definition in the first place. … “House Republicans will be presenting an amendment today to clarify that pedophilia is absolutely not a protected class under the Human…
  7. Déjà Vu? Fulton County DA Set to Announce Criminal Charges Against Trump and Associates https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/04/24/deja-vu-for-trump-fult…nounce-criminal-charges-against-trump-and-associates-n736494
    , Willis said, “We have seen in recent years that some may go outside of public expressions of opinion that are protected by the First … Amendment to engage in acts of violence that will endanger the safety of those we are sworn to protect.…
  8. Orwellian Progressive Push for Government Crackdown on News Outlets: Is Free Speech at Risk? https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/04/24/orwellian-progressive…ent-crackdown-on-news-outlets-is-free-speech-at-risk-n736073
    Despite the obvious First Amendment issues, these people seem to believe they can force networks to align with their orthodoxy. … She is not the first high-profile progressive to suggest such a thing.…
  9. WATCH: Renowned Criminologist Sunny Hostin Reveals Underlying Cause of 'Gun Violence' - 'White Men' https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2023/04/24/watch-renowned-c…n-reveals-underlying-cause-of-gun-violence-white-men-n736027
    Toss in “gun violence” and anything connected to Second Amendment rights, and we’re talking, immediately or sooner. … While Hostin’s first comment (relative to the number of firearms in the U.S. and the population percentage of gun owners) was largely … Before we hit the silly “radicalized by Fox News” nonsense — particularly as it relates to “gun violence” — let’s first get to the…
  10. Tim Robbins Is Still Battling That Chill Wind https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2023/04/24/tim-robbins-is-still-battling-that-chill-wind-n736190
    And both of us last week were told that both we and the First Amendment were not welcome at the Baseball Hall of Fame. … though despite my reservations regarding the Iraq War, by November 2004, I’d determined that Bush was the better option and cast my first…
  11. The Fox Factor: Should Government Regulate News Networks? https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/04/22/the-fox-factor-should-government-regulate-news-networks-n734939
    This is not the first time someone like Weismann has suggested using the government to punish media outlets that do not align with … Taking action against Fox News would be a shameless violation of the First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and freedom of the…
  12. Of Course Democrats Are Threatening to Imprison Matt Taibbi Over a Typo https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/04/21/of-course-democrats-are-threatening-to-imprison-matt-taibbi-over-a-typo-n734691
    First and foremost, it constitutes an attack on press freedom and the principles of the First Amendment, which guarantees the right…
  13. Americans Stock up on Guns: 60 Million Firearms Sold in 2 Years During COVID-19 Pandemic https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/04/21/americans-stock-up-on…on-firearms-sold-in-2-years-during-covid-19-pandemic-n734983
    households purchased guns during the pandemic, resulting in more than 15 million Americans keeping firearms in their homes for the first … The increase in gun ownership during the pandemic highlights the exercise of Second Amendment rights by millions of Americans. … As mentioned earlier, first-time gun buyers during the pandemic were more likely to be women, people of color, and renters.…
  14. Dick Durbin Deflates Left’s ‘Subpoena Clarence Thomas’ Balloon as Ted Cruz Nails What’s Really Going On https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2023/04/21/dick-durbin-d…omas-balloon-as-ted-cruz-nails-whats-really-going-on-n734837
    backroom plan to get rid of Feinstein, but also by highlighting the real reasons Democrats are targeting Clarence Thomas in the first … a Supreme Court justice who is the leading conservative on the court, the leading defender of religious liberty and the Second Amendment…
  15. Rod Rosenstein Gets a Reprieve; But For How Long? https://redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2018/10/10/rod-rosenstein-gets-reprieve-long-n96088
    Baker also said “he suspected Rosenstein was coordinating with two people in the administration to invoke the 25th Amendment.”  … Sussmann and that the contact occurred before the FBI had applied for the first FISA warrant to spy on Carter Page.”…
  16. Democrats Embrace Court-Packing to Carry On The #Resistance https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/10/09/democrats-embrace-court-packing-carry-resistance-n96060
    By bringing into the judicial system a steady and continuing stream of new and younger blood, I hope, first, to make the administration … Enacting term limits for justices would require a constitutional amendment and take years to pan out; packing the court is quicker…
  17. Kira's 2018 California Voter Guide Breakdown: A Layman's Cheat Sheet https://redstate.com/kiradavis/2018/10/08/kiras-2018-california-voter-guide-breakdown-laymans-cheat-sheet-n95685
    First I list the Prop and the summary bullet points that describe each one. … It’s right there on page 25, first column. … …well, first of all children are dirty and unruly and there’s plenty of reasons not to like them.…
  18. Hell, Yes, We Need To Gloat About Kavanaugh's Confirmation https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/10/08/hell-yes-need-gloat-kavanaughs-confirmation-n96015
    The same people who’ve declared war on the First Amendment, the Second Amendment–Hell’s bells, they’re only a hop-skip-and-jump from … are going to just ignore the one branch of government that has ruthlessly and relentlessly locked in progressive gains since FDR first…
  19. Water Cooler 10/26/18 Open Thread - The Foundation of Clear Thinking; Culture Amendment https://redstate.com/mikefrey/2018/10/26/water-cooler-102618…en-thread-foundation-clear-thinking-culture-amendment-n96823
    Flipping back to examine one of the first points this morning I found this as the concluding paragraph to the first chapter [emphasis … First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really … become legal through Amendment to the Constitution.…
  20. RedState's Watercooler, 10/24 Open Thread: Billion-Dollar Powerball https://redstate.com/diamondback/2018/10/24/redstates-watercooler-1024-open-thread-billion-dollar-powerball-n96684
    Get the practical stuff squared away first: a house in a Red State with mild winters, new vehicles for the three of us (practical, … u=1522834489762 – You get 5% off your first order, I get 75 Rewards Points. (~$7.50 store credit) Dvor: https://www.dvor.com/s/8l190b … – I get $10 in store credit after your first order ships.…
  21. Big Tech’s Lying Legal Two-Step - To Defend Their Censorship of Conservatives https://redstate.com/setonmotley/2018/10/22/big-techs-lying-legal-two-step-defend-censorship-conservatives-n96619
    ‘This is a stupid and ridiculous hearing,’ he said, because ‘the First Amendment applies to the government, not private companies.’ … While the First Amendment generally does not apply to private companies, the Supreme Court has held it ‘does not disable the government … When called on their mass, massive censorship of conservatives – Big Tech retreats behind the very same lame First Amendment argument…
  22. Trump's Montana Rally Has the Media in an Uproar https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/10/19/trumps-montana-rally-media-uproar-n96514
    the assault on an American journalist … To celebrate an attack on a journalist who was simply doing his job is an attack on the first … amendment by someone who has taken an oath to defend it." https://t.co/W1wMgUaBf2 — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 19, 2018 … Amendment.…
  23. The Enforcement Of Voter ID Laws Is Now A Racist Act https://redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2018/11/02/its-all-about-race-for-the-democrats-n97091
    I will be the first African-American, the first woman to chair the powerful Financial Services Committee. … Hispanics and Asian-Americans that they actually live in a country because of our constitution and because of the passage of the 14th Amendment…
  24. Harry Reid Is Lying, He Never Stopped Trying to End Birthright Citizenship https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/11/01/harry-reid-lying-never-stopped-trying-end-birthright-citizenship-n97057
    Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., 75, talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, for the first … In the exercise of its powers under section 5 of the Fourteenth Article of Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the…
  25. When Campaign Finance 'Transparency' - Ain't At All Transparent https://redstate.com/setonmotley/2018/11/01/campaign-finance-transparency-aint-transparent-n97060
    In no small part because of very stupid, anti-First Amendment campaign finance “reform” laws – there exist non-profit entities that … Campaign people are looking to push candidates and ballot items across the finish line first – all over the country.…