Continuing its string of decisions on hot-button issues, the Supreme Court has handed down a win for the First Amendment.
The court ruled 6-3 in favor of former football coach Joseph Kennedy in the case of Kennedy v. Bremerton School District.
Kennedy, a former football coach for a high school in Washington state, had been placed on paid leave amid controversy over his decision to kneel in prayer at the football field’s 50-yard-line after games.
A federal court ordered Los Angeles to hand over more than $100,000 to the National Rifle Association after ruling that the city had violated the gun-rights group’s First Amendment rights.
Federal district court judge Stephen Wilson struck down a city ordinance aimed at punishing prospective contractors with ties to the NRA as an infringement on the right to free speech and association. On Tuesday, he ordered city officials to pay for the Second Amendment group’s attorney fees, which totaled nearly $150,000.
Roberts also sent enough signals during internal deliberations on firearms restrictions, sources said, to convince fellow conservatives he would not provide a critical fifth vote anytime soon to overturn gun control regulations. As a result, the justices in June denied several petitions regarding Second Amendment rights.
Justice John Roberts screws the pooch again. One would think that with a supposedly conservative majority on the Supreme Court, the First Amendment would be a no-brainer. Throw in allegedly conservative Justice Roberts and throw out freedom of religion. Below is Justice Gorsuch’s righteously indignant dissent.
In a broad proposal that adds threatening libel suits to regulatory plans already pushed by Democrats on the Federal Election Commission, ex-chair Ann Ravel believes that there is support for expanded regulation in the wake of reports foreign governments spent $100,000 on 2016 political ads on Facebook.
She would include “fake news,” not just paid ads, to be regulated, though it’s never defined other than the Democrat’s description of “disinformation.” And anybody who shares or retweets it could face a libel suit.
An Indiana Representative is forcing the establishment media to look in the mirror and face their hypocrisy.
He is proposing the First Amendment in Indiana be treated the same as the Second Amendment. His proposal is that journalists be required to apply for a license before they are allowed to publish.
If they have felony convictions, they might not be allowed to publish.
Cali Rapper w/ No Criminal History Faces Life in Prison Because His Album Has a Picture of a Gun on It. So by this theory every violent Hollywood movie and TV show with guns should result in life in prison for the producers and actors. Stupidfornia.
Sidney Hill decided to take his “Impeach Obama” sign to the Alaska State Fair where he was protesting loudly, but peacefully, when fair security people demanded that he leave the fairgrounds.
Welcome to opening day at the Alaska State Fair. Now shut the hell up.
Sidney Hill decided to take his “Impeach Obama” sign to the Alaska State Fair where he was protesting loudly, but peacefully, when fair security people demanded that he leave the fairgrounds.
Sidney Hill, as you might expect, felt this was a violation of his free speech rights and expressed his opinion. Again, loudly but peacefully.
After a few minutes the dispute escalated. Hill was eventually thrown to the ground and, some would say, assaulted. When the private security officers found out Hill was packing heat, they confiscated his weapon and held him until police arrived.
He was charged with Disorderly Conduct-Challenge To Fight, and Criminal Trespass 2- Upon Premises.
Rent-a-cops versus a Lyndon LaRouche wacko. Who said freak shows were dead?
FCC Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd: “White people” should be forced to “step down…so someone else can have power.” His opinions on the First Amendment, race, power and the American system make Van Jones’ opinions seem positively mainstream.
That’s a quote from Mark Lloyd, the Federal Communications Commission’s new Chief Diversity Officer. His opinions on the First Amendment, race, power and the American system make Van Jones’ opinions seem positively mainstream.
“It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.
“…the purpose of free speech is warped to protect global corporations and block rules that would promote democratic governance.”
Of course, Lloyd loves Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez’ “incredible … democratic revolution.” He also admires the way “Chavez began to take very seriously the media in his country.” Translation: Chavez closed down any media outlets that deigned to oppose him.
What’s baffling is that any president ever appointed anyone with these fringe, extreme leftist beliefs to any position in the American government.
Of course, we’ve never had a President like Barack Obama before.
President Obama, who supposedly taught Constitutional law at University of Chicago, must have skimmed that dang First Amendment a little too quickly when he was speed reading the Constitution.
President Obama took a day trip to McLean, Virginia to promote his howling dog of a healthcare plan. He made it clear that his opinion is the only one worth hearing.
Few dare to speak out against Sharia Law, and fewer still get the chance to do so in our one-sided, speech-coded, liberal halls of academia. When they do, they are treated with disrespect by both the school administration and students. And it would not be a stretch to say that they take their lives in their hands, delivering a message that the biased or blind media is unwilling to give.
One such person is Nonie Darwish, a woman who lived under Sharia for 47 years. On April 9, 2009, she gave a speech at Purdue University on the threat of Sharia Law. Some Muslims in attendance helped Darwish make her point, by shouting that she had no right to speak, and questioning how much her jewelry cost. School and security officials, did nothing to quiet the crowd. Although, as you will see in this video, they did plenty to quiet the speaker’s sponsor, the Conservative Coalition for American Values, outside before the event.
If she had attempted to give this speech in an Islamic country, she’d be buried neck deep and stoned to death. If she’d given it in many countries in Europe, she possibly be arrested for hate speech. So far, here in America, she only gets the treatment you see in the video. So far, we say, if our media –a nd organizations pretending to stand up for women, like NOW — does not begin reporting stories like this.
