Results for First Amendment

  1. Water Cooler 11/01/18 Open Thread; Voters Are Indeed Uninformed; SJWs Eating Their Own; Marriage Is Just What Again ? https://redstate.com/joliphant/2018/11/01/water-cooler-11011…ad-voters-indeed-uninformed-sjws-eating-marriage-just-n97065
    think our fellow Americans at least know the bill of rights, even though congress and the courts seem to have no idea the 10th amendment … It looks like google is finding out first hand just how crippling their policies can wind up being. … First they had an internal firestorm over the James Damore memo, sparked by his audacity in realizing that men and women are different…
  2. Gubernatorial Democrat Wants to Ban Your Favorite Rifle https://redstate.com/alexparker/2018/10/31/stacy-abrams-the-view-ban-ar-15-n96975
    Herstory: Medical Miracle Allows Lesbian Couple To Carry The Same Baby, MURDERED: Notorious Gangster Whitey Bulger Assassinated On His First … She wants to push back on that: “But I do want to push back on any notion that I believe that the 2nd Amendment is not the law of…
  3. President Trump Gets a Key Ally in Fight to End Birthright Citizenship https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/10/30/president-trump-gets-key-ally-fight-end-birthright-citizenship-n96965
    First, Congress has plenary power for establishing rules for naturalization. … The second point is that Graham doesn’t mention anything about a Constitutional amendment. … to make laws to carry out the intent of the amendment.…
  4. Birthright Citizenship and How All Amendments Aren't Created Equal https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/10/30/birthright-citizenship-amendments-arent-created-equal-n96934
    Start with the First Amendment. … Even though the First Amendment expressly prevents government regulation of speech, the left is attempting to legislate some arguments … Amendment is up for grabs.…
  5. Virtue, Freedom, and the Future https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2018/10/30/virtue-freedom-future-n96940
    It’s highly doubtful that Booker was calling on his supporters to exercise their First Amendment right to petition the government with…
  6. End birthright citizenship? The 'cure' is worse than the problem it purports to address. https://redstate.com/kentucky_dana/2018/10/30/end-birthright-citizenship-cure-worse-problem-purports-address-n96939
    The only way to end birthright citizenship is a constitutional amendment. … But, quite frankly, the Fourteenth Amendment is good law. … My first American ancestors were in America before their lands became part of the United States.…
  7. The Midterms: Ohio https://redstate.com/davenj1/2018/10/30/the-midterms-ohio-n96937
    Brown has visions of a future presidential run dancing in his head and winning reelection to the Senate is a necessary first step.   … Democrats are strangely going after GOP incumbent Steve Chabot in the First District.   … no chances against his Democratic Party unknown and is  running ads in support of affordable health care and a balanced budget amendment…
  8. Federal Judge Overturns a Horrible California Abortion Law https://redstate.com/alexparker/2018/10/29/california-abortion-fact-act-n96883
    The ruling comes only a few months after the Supreme Court’s June 26th ruling that the legislation was likely in breach of the First … Amendment.…
  9. RedState's Water Cooler - October 28, 2018 - Open Thread - "How Dry I Am" https://redstate.com/colonelflagg/2018/10/28/redstates-water-cooler-october-28-2018-open-thread-dry-n96866
    First elected to Congress in 1903, he was one of the very few politicians of the day to actively advocate for Federal laws against … The 18th Amendment which established prohibition did not define an intoxicating drink or provide penalties for violation of the new … actively to defeat every measure to amend or repeal the Act which bore his name while he was in office, until the passage of the 21st Amendment…
  10. IRS Agrees to Target and Monitor Churches, Because Angry Atheists Demanded It? https://redstate.com/matthewclark/2014/08/06/irs-agrees-target-monitor-churches-angry-atheists-demanded-n50004
    As Fox News reported, this deal with the IRS not only violates the First Amendment but could lead to the IRS literally monitoring sermons…
  11. John McCain on the Decline & Fall of the United States Senate https://redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2014/07/31/john-mccain-decline-fall-united-states-senate-n49937
    Meanwhile, scores of bills that have passed the House are never even brought to a vote in the Senate – and without the amendment process … floor debate on a supplemental appropriations bill on the border crisis, in which Reid and the Democrats yet again closed off the amendment … I recommend you watch the first 9:46 of this tirade, which is positively cinematic in McCain’s pleading with Reid and Dick Durbin to…
  12. Obama Peddles Impeachment Conspiracy Theories To Raise Money https://redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2014/07/30/obama-peddles-impeachment-conspiracy-theories-raise-money-n49916
    The first lady was first to broach the subject, in a Thursday evening fundraising speech in Chicago. … –Should we repeal the Second Amendment and have a total ban on guns? –Should we reinstate the draft? … –Should we repeal parts of the First Amendment? -Should we ban coal power and ban coal from shipping through our ports?…
  13. The Watercooler ~ Religious Rhetoric and Politics https://redstate.com/westcoastpatriette/2014/07/30/watercooler-religious-rhetoric-politics-n49918
    i.e., Christians — who live and love their faith and the God who undergirds it all, are commonly referred to as exercising their first … amendment right to “practice their deeply held religious beliefs.”…
  14. The 'unbelievably ridiculous,' 'sketchy' and farcical Perry indictment will not stand https://redstate.com/california_yankee/2014/08/18/unbelievab…diculous-sketchy-farcical-perry-indictment-will-stand-n50130
    Perry was indicted potentially violates the First Amendment, because it is unconstitutionally vague and overbroad.…
  15. Citizens, Looters, and The Police – Why We Need The 2nd Amendment https://redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2014/08/17/citizens-looters-police-need-2nd-amendment-n50123
    When it gets this bad; the 2nd Amendment comes into its own. … The shooting of Michael Brown began the first phase of unrest in Ferguson, MO. … When people tell you the 2nd Amendment is outdated, compare what happened in Korea Town during the LA Riots to what happened on La…
  16. Rick Perry Becomes a Victim of Lawfare https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2014/08/15/rick-perry-becomes-victim-lawfare-n50114
    bill,” when uttered by a sitting Governor, constitutes core political speech entitled to the highest levels of protection under the First … Amendment, quite apart from any issues under Texas law with respect to privileges afforded to the Governor acting in his official…
  17. Bundy Not Last Victim of Professional Police https://redstate.com/sententia/2014/08/13/bundy-last-victim-professional-police-n50095
    Don’t we have this thing called the First Amendment, which includes freedom of the press to gather information for public disclosure…
  18. Liberals Urge Southern Secession on Gamechanger Salon https://redstate.com/briansikma/2014/08/12/liberals-urge-southern-secession-gamechanger-salon-n50072
    First to respond was Guy Saperstein, a wealthy California mega-donor to Democratic candidates and leftwing causes. … Ryan Clayton, who founded Wolf PAC, a group seeking to reform campaign finance laws through a constitutional amendment, pushed back…
  19. Mexico Opens Oil and Gas Sector to Outside Investment https://redstate.com/vladimir/2014/08/09/mexico-opens-oil-gas-sector-outside-investment-n50044
    Allowing private companies back in, not merely as service providers but as equity owners of production required amendment of the national … Opening Mexico to capitalist competition for the first time in 75 years is great news for the industry, for North American oil supply…
  20. Congress Demands Answers over IRS’s “Collusive” Attempt to Target Churches for Angry Atheists https://redstate.com/matthewclark/2014/08/26/congress-demand…irss-collusive-attempt-target-churches-angry-atheists-n50233
    Rather than taking the tried and true arguments that won them the first case, the IRS agreement allows the Freedom from Religion Foundation … Clearly any agreement or settlement between an abusive IRS and angry atheists cannot trump the First Amendment rights of pastors and…
  21. It's Time to Pay Attention to Kansas https://redstate.com/josh_hammer/2014/08/20/time-pay-attention-kansas-n50172
    Mike Pompeo (KS-04) and Tim Huelskamp (KS-01), this strikes us at first blush as counterintuitive.   … Ryan had himself first made his D.C. bones with Empower America, the predecessor to FreedomWorks, which was co-founded by Kemp.   … Personally, I would love to see a wholesale repeal of the 16th Amendment and the elimination of the IRS as a federal agency, coupled…
  22. A Glimpse Into the Mind of a Fascist https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2014/08/20/glimpse-mind-fascist-n50165
    The First Amendment protects citizens even during the course of interacting with cops. … Everyone knows that cops never question, arrest, tase, beat, or shoot you unless you committed a crime first. It’s just logic.…
  23. What Title II Regulation of the Internet Actually Means https://redstate.com/freedomworks/2014/09/16/title-ii-regulation-internet-actually-means-n50443
    want to subject the internet – a law, it will be remembered, that was passed decades before anyone had even so much as dreamt the first … charge, practice, classification, or regulation that is unjust or unreasonable is hereby declared to be unlawful Here we see the first … The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, prohibiting involuntary servitude, appears to have been overlooked here.…
  24. Ted Cruz's Chief of Staff Move to Campaign Team a Hopeful Sign https://redstate.com/erick/2014/09/10/cruz-chief-of-staff-move-to-campaign-team-a-hopeful-sign-n50378
    going to Washington sell out the conviction he ran on, but actually, as we’ve all known, does believe in federalism, the tenth amendment … First, the Cruz staff is known to be rock solid conservative – and it functions that way. … Taking Chip to the Presidential effort is a good first step of what will be many more needed to get the job done.…
  25. Harry Reid Trolls Himself https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2014/09/09/harry-reid-trolls-n50364
    Republicans have allowed a vote on the Bernie Sanders/Tom Udall anti-Koch Brothers constitutional amendment. Seriously. … I mean, if you really and truly do have actual business to attend to, maybe you should attend to that first and then later if you have … You look a bit silly claiming that Republicans are cynically exploiting a bill that you only brought up cynically in the first place…