Results for: First Amendment

This Is Big: Trump Admin Fights Back, Now Challenging D.C.'s Assault on Gun Rights
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/12/22/this-is-big-trump…ghts-back-now-challenging-dcs-assault-on-gun-rights-n2197380
– Those words, of course, come from the Second Amendment, which states in part that the "...right of the people, to keep and bear arms … time the District has been sued over Second Amendment issues. … But any case that reinforces the protections of the Second Amendment right is worth fighting.…
Skinny on SCOTUS - (2025 Term - November-December)
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2025/12/26/skinny-on-scotus-2025-term-november-december-n2197503
– There's been so much attention paid in recent months to lower court rulings and to the Supreme Court's emergency docket that the first … Here, to remedy that, is our first Skinny on SCOTUS installment for this term. … , but the court must first make specific findings regarding the necessity of doing so.…
The Bad Blood Between Rob Reiner and Donald Trump
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/12/21/that-history-between-rob-reiner-and-donald-trump-n2197342
– taken from them, and we have to do everything we can to make people understand that … if they lose that democracy, all of these [FirstAmendment rights] will be taken away from them.” [....] … “The Hollywood community is very much aware of their First Amendment rights being impinged.…
Whoa: Deep Blue State Deals Massive Blow to Trans Agenda, Axes LGBTQIA+ Mandate
https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2025/12/17/trans-agenda-t…e-state-axes-lgbtqia-non-discrimination-requirement-n2197238
–  The case will remain open until we are confident that Massachusetts is fully committed to respecting the First Amendment and … policies and developments are deeply troubling, clearly contrary to the purpose of child welfare programs, and in direct violation of FirstAmendment protections," wrote Andrew Gradison, Acting Assistant Secretary for the Administration for Children and Families.Despite…
'Strains Credulity': News Outlet Threatened With Defamation Lawsuit for Report on MN Autism Center
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2025/12/31/bring-it-on-alpha…defamation-suit-after-reporting-on-mn-autism-center-n2197626
– Alpha News’ Autism Story is clearly protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution as well as Article I, Section … Despite the left's best efforts to erode free speech rights when it suits their purposes, First Amendment protections for journalists…
Letitia 'No One Is Above the Law' James Sued for Threatening School Board Members Over Trans Athletes
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/12/09/letitia-no-one-is-ab…hreatening-school-board-members-over-trans-athletes-n2196980
– There’s something called the First Amendment:"The First Amendment here reigns true, and so whether or not you have these state laws … , a state cannot come in and just erase the First Amendment out of the Constitution," Hermann said.…
THE ESSEX FILES: Jimmy Kimmel's Christmas Lecture on Tyranny Rings Hollow
https://redstate.com/brad-essex/2025/12/28/the-essex-files-n2197516
– Political speech, no matter how sharp — and sometimes cruel and hateful — enjoys strong protection under the First Amendment.Contrast … On the flip side, the First Amendment in the U.S. gives robust protection to speech — even speech many people find offensive, hateful…
We Have the Power
https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2025/12/22/we-have-the-power-n2197389
– MORE: 'Frauds and Grifters': Ben Shapiro Torches 'Charlatans' of Conservative Movement in Fiery AmFest SpeechMy focus is not on the first … Because I am opinionated (shock), my first thought was, "Newsflash, Scooter: we ALL have a microphone." … It is a glorious smorgasbord of the First Amendment. Included in that smorgasbord is the podcast universe.…
EU Melts Down After Rubio Sanctions Foreign Agents Who Colluded With Big Tech to Censor Americans
https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2025/12/24/eu-gives-mind…sanctions-on-foreign-actors-who-censored-americans-n2197452
– We take the First Amendment very seriously around these parts, and the EU would do well to remember that when thinking about messing…
Court Okays Silencing of Parents Who Asked Questions After Student With MS-13 Ties Brought Gun to School
https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2025/12/26/federal-appeal…ules-its-okay-for-public-schools-to-silence-parents-n2197446
– small body that is ran [sic] by seven or eight men and women should regulate what the general public can and cannot say based on our FirstAmendment rights."…
Eric Swalwell's Backward Priorities: Arrest ICE Agents, Keep Illegal Aliens in California's Farm Fields
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2025/12/31/swalwell-waxes-i…do-to-ice-agents-if-he-becomes-california-governor-n2197634
– While Swally laughably pretends to be a defender of "democracy," the First Amendment, and various other virtuous causes, the guy's … Constitution).As the inimitable Jonathan Turley wrote about Swalwell's scheme:The first tiny barrier to Swalwell’s antebellum policies…
Can Trump End Birthright Citizenship? Supreme Court Says It Will Decide
https://redstate.com/joesquire/2025/12/06/supreme-court-trump-birthright-citizenship-order-n2196876
– This marks the first time the court will address the merits of Trump's birthright citizenship policy.READ MORE: Trump Administration … The 14th Amendment was passed after the Civil War in 1868. … attorneys argue that parents in the country temporarily aren't "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States, so the 14th Amendment
Bat Viruses, Beagle Torment: Rand Paul's New Grievance Airing
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/12/23/bat-viruses-beagle-torment-rand-pauls-new-grievance-airing-n2197411
First, the summary:We discovered cash going toward experiments teaching ferrets to binge drink alcohol and dosing dogs with cocaine … We could point to the Constitution and the Tenth Amendment, demanding someone identify where almost anything mentioned in this report…
Angry Wisconsin Business Owner Finds Out: Leave Politics at Home
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/12/31/angry-wisconsin-business-owner-finds-out-leave-politics-at-home-n2197639
– He has a First Amendment right to wear a piece of outerwear expressing a political opinion, and while his employer has every right…
Antisemitic Australia Attack Sparks New, Useless Firearm Surrender Scheme
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/12/19/antisemitic-austra…attack-sparks-new-useless-firearm-surrender-scheme-n2197293
– But, we must remember, there is no Second Amendment in Australia.Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a national … cause of the Bondi Beach massacre - and by the way, how can the Australian government "buy back" anything they didn't own in the first
Rubio Targets Five Foreign Operatives Who Conspired With Big Tech to Censor Americans
https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2025/12/23/rubio-announce…gners-who-conspired-to-stifle-free-speech-in-the-us-n2197436
– With Sanctions and a Big, Big WarningFinally Shutting the Barn Door, Marco Rubio Freezes All Visas for Truck DriversThis isn't the first … willingness to call them out and punish them sends an unmistakable message: foreign meddling, especially when it interferes with the FirstAmendment, will not be tolerated, and those who try will find the doors to the United States firmly shut to them.…
Civil Rights Division Goes on Offense, Eliminates 'Disparate Impact' From Title VI
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2025/12/10/civil-rights-divi…n-offense-eliminates-disparate-impact-from-title-vi-n2196987
– violations, which DOJ CR previously steered clear of, are now on the table.Civil Rights Division Files the First Department of Justice … Affirmative Lawsuit in Support of Gun Owners“The Second Amendment is not a second-class right,” said @AAGDhillon. … Department of Justice Affirmative Lawsuit in Support of Gun Owners “The Second Amendment is not a second-class right,” said …
Atlas Shrugging? California Tech Moguls Threatening to Leave Over Wealth Tax
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/12/29/atlas-shrugging-ca…ia-tech-moguls-threatening-to-leave-over-wealth-tax-n2197572
– At the federal level, the ravings of Democrats like Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) aside, this would require a constitutional amendment … I made my money from my first company, paid hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes on it, used the remainder to start a second company…
Is France Now Presaging the Death of the West?
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/12/23/is-france-now-presaging-the-death-of-the-west-n2197429
– Yes, the First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion, but it does not allow anyone to impose their religion, their theocratic basis … This Islamic law lies outside the protection of the First Amendment.That's our advantage.…
Ignored Warnings: Australian Government Now Blamed for Beach Massacre
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/12/15/ignored-warnings-australian-government-now-blamed-for-beach-massacre-n2197152
– joins the entire Australian Jewish community in mourning the tragic loss of lives in the terrorist attack at Bondi Beach on the first … particular sect of Islam any particular goblin might adhere to, they want to kill you or subjugate you.The very concept enshrined in our FirstAmendment, freedom of conscience, is alien to these people.…
About That Planned Parenthood Funding...1st Circuit Smacks Down Crazy District Court Ruling
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2025/12/12/about-that-funding…peals-court-smacks-down-crazy-district-court-ruling-n2197083
– succeed on their claims that the provision is a "bill of attainder" (prohibited by the Constitution), that it infringed on their FirstAmendment rights, and that it violated the Equal Protection Clause.…
DOJ Steps in After Boys Get Punished for Telling the Truth
https://redstate.com/eli-shepherd/2025/12/10/doj-steps-in-after-boys-get-punished-for-telling-the-truth-n2196979
– Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon put it plainly: “Students do not shed their First Amendment rights at the schoolhouse gate … Not because the boys shouldn’t have needed defending in the first place, but because someone in government actually remembered that…
Mic Drop: Scott Bessent Demolishes Media to Their Faces Over Narrative About Trump's Health
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/12/03/mic-drop-scott-be…a-to-their-faces-over-narrative-about-trumps-health-n2196776
–  First, Bessent told them he'd stopped reading the paper, hitting them right where they lived, because they were "just this fever … How are you going to invoke the 25th Amendment if the cabinet secretaries never see the president? … "How are you going to invoke the 25th Amendment if the Cabinet secretaries never see the president?” Bessent asked. Exactly!…
A Chinese Billionaire Has Over 100 American Citizen Children, How Is This Even Legal?
https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/12/15/a-chinese-billionair…00-american-citizen-children-how-is-this-even-legal-n2197137
– Each birth generates a U.S. citizen who can take up residence in the U.S. at some future time.While at first blush, this can be distinguished … Most of the opposition is based on a personal animus toward Trump and a Hollywood version of the 14th Amendment rather than facts;…
I’m Done Lamenting; You Should Be Too. Make 2026 a Year of Reforming Over Mourning
https://redstate.com/chase-spears/2025/12/31/im-done-lamenti…be-too-make-2026-a-year-of-reforming-over-mourning-n2197629
– Others will treat the occasion as a premature end to the Christmas season, merely the first annual holiday on the calendar. … pillage the nation, while the conquest goals of radical Islamists are enabled by those who believe that evil is protected by the 1st Amendment
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