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.…
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 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…
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
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.…
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 …
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
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…
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!…
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.…
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.…
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…
GOP Probes Biden CFPB Data Security Fail: Consumers' Data Leaked to Personal Email
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/12/04/gop-probes-biden-c…curity-fail-consumers-data-leaked-to-personal-email-n2196819
– That would seem to be the first question investigators should ask.Read More: The Schumer Shutdown Is On - Why Is the CFPB Still … But the big problem is one I've been pointing out since the CFPB was first stood up in 2011, and that is simply this: There is no constitutional … authorization for the CFPB, and the 10th Amendment would, or at least should, then prohibit its existence.…
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.…
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.…
SCOTUS Justice Thomas Makes State Attorney Reveal 'Fishing Expedition' Against Pro-Life Organization
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2025/12/02/justice-thomas-g…it-states-fishing-expedition-against-pro-life-group-n2196747
– with zero probable cause, and zero complaints lodged against the group, no less.During oral arguments over a subpoena targeting FirstAmendment rights.Platkin’s team countered that First Choice was not yet required to turn over the donor names, but most of the justices …  A decision by SCOTUS in First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, Inc. v. Platkin is expected by the end of June 2026.…
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;…
Morning Minute: Choose Joy
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2025/12/12/morning-minute-n2197055
– Charlie Kirk's Alleged Assassin Makes First In-Court Appearance, Shows Why Cameras Are NecessaryAfter Robinson's first physical appearance … Woman's Lawsuit Gives SCOTUS a Chance to Establish National ReciprocityThe Supreme Court has explicitly stated that the Second Amendment
Taiwan Update: POTUS Reaffirms Support, Recent KMT Legislative Actions Add to Defense Budget Uncertainty
https://redstate.com/erik-durneika/2025/12/07/taiwan-update…gislative-actions-add-to-defense-budget-uncertainty-n2196880
– review and report its guidelines concerning relations with Taiwan to various federal agencies not less than every five years, an amendment … unilateral change to the status quo in the Taiwan Strait.We will build a military capable of denying aggression anywhere in the First … America’s diplomatic efforts should focus on pressing our First Island Chain allies and partners to allow the U.S. military greater…
Why the Supreme Court May Reject Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order
https://redstate.com/joesquire/2025/12/06/supreme-court-vs-trump-birthright-citizenship-n2196875
– For the first time, the Supreme Court will directly confront the legality of Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright … is much quieter, and far more consequential: Can any president, Republican or Democrat, unilaterally reinterpret the Fourteenth Amendment
'Free Tina Peters' Gains More Traction With DOJ's CO Prison Investigation and Judge's Block of Release
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2025/12/10/free-tina-peters…raction-as-judge-refuses-transfer-to-federal-prison-n2196998
– important constitutional questions concerning whether the trial court improperly punished her more severely because of her protected FirstAmendment speech," Varholak wrote.…
Morning Minute: There Goes My Heart
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2025/12/09/morning-minute-n2196945
– . § 30116 violate the First Amendment, either on their face or as applied to party spending in connection with "party coordinated communications…
Morning Minute: Give a Little Bit
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2025/12/02/morning-minute-n2196725
– Platkin — Where the subject of a state investigatory demand has established a reasonably objective chill of its First Amendment rights … , is a federal court in a first-filed action deprived of jurisdiction because those rights must be adjudicated in state court?…
Morning Minute: Those Were the Days
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2025/12/15/morning-minute-n2197131
– that doesn't change the fact that when seconds counted police were hours away, and this incident is a reminder that we are our own first … December 15th, the Senate will proceed to a roll call vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to concur in the House amendment
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