Results for: First Amendment

Federal Appeals Court: Maryland Parents Can't Opt K-5 Kids Out of LGBTQ Subjects in Schools
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/05/16/federal-appeals-co…cant-opt-k-5-kids-out-of-lgbtq-subjects-in-schools-n2174276
– Amendment right to free exercise of religion.The parents had argued that refusal to provide an opt-out from their children’s exposure … to LGBT-themed books and related discussions violates federal and state law.It's hard to see how this isn't a First Amendment issue … — that amendment and the 14th Amendment's extension of the Bill of Rights to state governments — given that these people's children…
Still Gagged: NY Appeals Court Upholds Order Stifling Trump Speech in Manhattan Trial
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2024/05/15/still-gagged-ny-app…olds-order-stifling-trump-speech-in-manhattan-trial-n2174220
– Still, there are First Amendment implications, and Trump's team will have to determine if it's a battle worth waging on principle.…
Has 'Zuck' Struck Again? RFK Jr., Super PAC Sue Meta for Alleged Collusion With Gov't for Censorship
https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2024/05/14/has-zuck-struck-a…for-alleged-collusion-with-with-govt-for-censorship-n2174179
– The suit claims Meta violated First Amendment rights and committed election interference by censoring a biographical film on Kennedy … Kennedy Jr. and American Values 2024, a political action committee supporting his campaign, filed a First Amendment and election interference…
Alabama Passes Law Protecting Gun Owners From De Facto Private Sector Firearm Registry
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/05/14/alabama-passes-law-pro…wners-from-de-facto-private-sector-firearm-registry-n2174188
– Kay Ivey (R) signed into law the Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act on May 6. … Vice President & General Counsel, highlighted the law’s purpose, characterizing it as “a necessary tool to protect the Second Amendment … rights of legal gun owners.The NSSF also referred to an op-ed penned by New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin in which he first…
Portrait of an American Hero: Roy Chapman Andrews
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/05/13/portrait-of-an-american-hero-roy-chapman-andrews-n2174160
– who is best remembered today for his adventures in various deserts pursuing dinosaur bones, it is surprising to some that Andrews first … Andrews returned to the site and determined that, yes, these were indeed fossilized dinosaur eggs – the first ever found. … But dinosaur eggs they were, the very first; Andrews wrote about that day:Then our indifference suddenly evaporated.…
Anti-Gunner Presents the Wackiest Gun Control Policy You Have Ever Heard
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/05/12/anti-gunner-presents-the-wackiest-gun-control-policy-you-have-ever-heard-n2174113
– But for now, this is the first and the best of its kind.Some would say that the S-HTS infringes upon their rights. … If one is not homicidal, the S-HTS will protect one’s second amendment rights.Some would say that no one would dare adopt the S-HTS … They propose all kinds of laws that would never have prevented the atrocity in the first place.…
New Survey Reveals Disturbing Attitudes About the State of Free Speech in America
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/05/12/new-survey-reveals-dis…attitudes-about-the-state-of-free-speech-in-america-n2174101
– More than half of very conservative Americans (53%) think their First Amendment rights are “not at all” secure, while less than 1 in … About 1 in 3 conservative Americans (35%) said their First Amendment rights are “not at all” secure, while 16% said their rights are … Authoritarian elements in the country have been working hard to undermine the letter and spirit of the First Amendment.…
Lawsuit Against University Highlights Little-Known Violation of Free Speech
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/05/11/lawsuit-against-univer…ty-highlights-little-known-violation-of-free-speech-n2174077
– Students United centers on the First Amendment rights of students whose viewpoints do not align with the organization’s. … Starting in the 1970s, students at public colleges and universities have brought numerous lawsuits that asserted, on First Amendment … Amendment rights.”James Dickey, Senior Counsel at the Upper Midwest Law Center, concurred, saying that “Coerced speech and compelled…
Houston Cops Let Drunk Driver Go, Arrest and Jail Good Samaritan, Lie, and Demand to Get Away With It
https://redstate.com/streiff/2024/05/11/houston-cops-let-dru…l-good-samaritan-lie-and-demand-to-get-away-with-it-n2174050
– ROA.273–74 (first alteration in original). … Hughes sued everyone in the Houston government phone book, claiming a violation of "his Fourth Amendment rights by arresting and prosecuting…
As Election 2024 Approaches, Biden Admin Resumes Attempts to Silence Social Media 'Disinformation'
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/05/10/the-biden-administrati…ed-colluding-with-social-media-to-silence-us-online-n2173996
– Amendment case in the Supreme Court, a top senator said Monday.Mark Warner, D-Va., who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, told … Missouri, a case that first began in the Fifth Circuit appellate court last July. … Missouri’s then-Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed the suit on the grounds that the Biden administration violated First Amendment…
Friday Follies: The Trump Trial in Manhattan Marches On
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2024/05/10/friday-follies-the-trump-trial-in-manhattan-marches-on-n2174007
– testified that Trump frequently sent newspaper clippings to his contacts, including once (of a photo of him aboard Air Force One for the first … any other specific instances where he sent clippings to Weisselberg or any specific conversations between the two during Trump's first …  The first set is a thread related to Michael Cohen, dated April 21, 2018.It also attacks New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman…
OPINION: As a Black Man, I’ll Take Ann Coulter’s Racism Over Kathy Hochul’s
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/05/09/as-a-black-man-ill-take-ann-coulters-racism-over-kathy-hochuls-n2173982
– First was New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, who bizarrely claimed that Black children in the Bronx don’t know what computers are. … people into supporting the actual progressive agenda, which is aimed at limiting lawful gun ownership and attacking the Second Amendment…
Whoopi Goldberg, 'The View' Co-Hosts Reject 'Innocent Until Proven Guilty' ... for Donald Trump
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/05/08/whoopi-goldberg-innocent-until-proven-guilty-inapplicable-to-trump-n2173935
– way; she is purely a windbag bloviating on a far-left network with literally dozens of viewers and, after all, she enjoys the same First … Amendment rights as the rest of us.…
North Carolina Student Sues School Board After Being Suspended for Saying ‘Illegal Aliens’
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/05/08/north-carolina-student…ard-after-being-suspended-for-saying-illegal-aliens-n2173948
– In a case that raises serious questions about First Amendment rights, a 16-year-old North Carolina student has filed a federal lawsuit…
Florida School Shuts Down Christian Club After Complaint From Rabid Atheist Zealots
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/05/08/florida-school-shuts-d…ian-club-after-complaint-from-rabid-atheist-zealots-n2173930
– ensure that the FCA club at Hamilton Elementary is disbanded.”The organization also argued that students at the school “have the First … “Students have the First Amendment right to be free from religious indoctrination in their public schools. … “The Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized that students’ religious viewpoints are protected by the First Amendment and that students…
NY Judge Orders Removal of Proposed Constitutional Amendment Protecting Abortion From State Ballot
https://redstate.com/mdempsey/2024/05/08/ny-justice-orders-r…l-amendment-protecting-abortion-off-ny-state-ballot-n2173922
– On Tuesday, a judge in Livingston County, New York ordered the removal of a proposed constitutional amendment that would protect and …  One week after the proposed amendment was introduced, it was passed on July 1st, 2022. … You have to introduce the amendment, wait for the opinion to come down,” he said.…
Your Ability to Remain Free Rests in Your Willingness to Win the Information War
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2024/05/08/your-ability-t…willingness-to-maintain-a-free-flow-of-information-n2173914
– The first is that we have a press that isn't reporting the news, but a narrative. … They're finding new ways to curtail your First Amendment rights every day, and at some point, those lines on that old piece of paper…
Police Clear Out GWU Encampment After Call for Beheadings, May Have Moved in for More Ignoble Reason
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/05/08/police-finally-clear-out-gw-encampment-days-after-beheadings-threat-n2173906
– University President Ellen Granberg on the encampment:“What is currently happening at GW is not a peaceful protest protected by the First … Amendment or our university’s policies.…
TikTok Launches Lawsuit Against US to Stop Ban and Some Experts Believe They Will Succeed
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2024/05/07/tiktok-launche…stop-ban-and-some-experts-believe-they-will-succeed-n2173886
–  “The First Amendment means the government can’t restrict Americans’ access to ideas, information, or media from abroad without … a very good reason for it—and no such reason exists here,” said Jameel Jaffer of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia …  Gautam Hans, law professor and associated director of the First Amendment Clinic at Cornell University, sees some complications…
Mike Johnson Meets With Marjorie Taylor Greene to Hash Out Their Differences Amid Ouster Threats
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/05/07/mike-johnson-meets-wit…e-to-hash-out-their-differences-amid-ouster-threats-n2173874
– and cast the tiebreaking vote in favor of legislation reauthorizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) without an amendment … While it is not clear whether Johnson and Greene have come closer to finding common ground after their first meeting, Greene did not…
Colorado Passes Law Requiring Teachers to Use Student's Preferred Pronouns, Cuts Parents Out of the Loop
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/05/07/colorado-passes-la…nts-preferred-pronouns-cuts-parents-out-of-the-loop-n2173866
– this, never mind notify them that their child has gone off the woke deep end.Not only that, but this law directly contradicts the First … Amendment. … Dhillon (@pnjaban) May 6, 2024This law is, of course, a First Amendment lawsuit just waiting to happen.…
Does Trump WANT to Be Thrown in Jail?
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/05/07/does-trump-want-to-be-arrested-n2173857
– I’m not sure how this doesn’t violate the First Amendment, especially since it seems to be specifically targeted to him while miscreants…
New: U of Florida’s Ben Sasse Shows the Way With Powerful Blueprint on the Handling of Campus Protests
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2024/05/06/florida-gator…t-on-how-campus-protests-should-be-handled-in-op-ed-n2173846
– free speech perspective and the perspective of making sure the campus is kept safe and welcoming for all students:To cherish the First … Amendment rights of speech and assembly, we draw a hard line at unlawful action. … Amendment violations" are nearing fever pitch.…
The Importance of Protecting Speech: Why We Have to Take the Bad With the Good
https://redstate.com/mdempsey/2024/05/06/lets-talk-about-speech-and-why-we-have-to-take-the-bad-with-the-good-n2173819
– From the First Amendment to the Second, Fourth, and everyone in between, these rights are intrinsic to a free society. … Amendment. …  When it comes to our First Amendment rights, we must be able to say whatever it is we want to, lest we damn ourselves to a future…
Open Carry v. Concealed Carry: Situational and Political Arguments
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/05/06/open-carry-v-concealed-carry-situational-and-political-arguments-n2173824
– So it's not surprising that the open-carry v. concealed-carry discussion has fired up again in the Second Amendment community, not … Nothing in the Second Amendment says that the manner in which someone chooses to bear arms.I won't re-hash everything Tom said; he … I don't want him to see that I'm packing and decide, "I'm shooting that guy first."…
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