Sentences with phrase «amendment rights of citizens»

The dismissal of the first indictment today sends a strong message to Planned Parenthood and their political cronies that colluding to suppress the First Amendment rights of citizen journalists will never work.

Not exact matches

Witness, for example, the recent move in the U.S. by a citizen's group and Congressman Jim McGovern of Massachusetts to propose a «People's Rights Amendment.»

Although the Bush administration issued new regulations relating to the Second Amendment rights of law - abiding citizens in units of the National Park System and National Wildlife Refuge System that went into effect on January 9, 2009 --

It would balance the right to bear arms «with an equal respect for the lives of all citizens of Florida» and instruct Florida courts to apply the U.S. Supreme Court's carefully qualified interpretations of the Second Amendment.

No, they don't want to have holidays or say the pledge of allegiance but they have no problem citing 1st Amendment rights in going door to door pushing their religion down people's throats or getting out of their responsibilties as American citizens by showing respect to the flag.

The 2nd Amendment guaranteed individual citizens the rights to own arms JUST AS GOOD as those of the regular soldiers they might have to oppose in an armed rebellion — the very sort of armed rebellion that the writers of the 2nd Amendment had recently successfully engaged in, defeating the most powerful military force on the planet using their own guns, which were JUST AS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries had.

Third, free speech ought not be absolutized because the First Amendment basically protects, not the right of the press to speak, but the right of every citizen to know.

That is, the First Amendment gives the broadcaster only a derivative right to communicate, a right derived from the right of the citizen to know.

The Congress seems for the most part to agree with the media, if passage of the Freedom of Access to Clinics» Entrance Act» the act that narrowed the First Amendment rights of abortion protestors as an entire class of citizens» is any indication.

The reporter says that while «legal experts said the First Amendment grants Supreme Court justices, just like any other U.S. citizen, the right to speak their mind,» other experts insist that «Scalia's comments were difficult to reconcile with his judicial obligation to regard citizens of all religious persuasions — whether believer or unbeliever, Christian or non-Christian — as equals under the law.»

The point, as it relates to this article is that the second amendment enumerates the rights of citizens to arm themselves against tyranny within their own government.

Only nine years earlier, as we have seen, the Court had interpreted the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment to mean that Congress could not bar slavery from the territories (and that members of the black race could not be citizens of the United States or enjoy any rights and privileges save those that the dominant white race chose to grant them).

This is further supported by the Second Amendment (right to keep and bear arms) and Federalist Paper Number 46 (James Madison) explained that it was a sign of trust by the government that it let it's citizen keep arms and that the people need not fear the government because the people were armed.

The first amendment affirms the right of citizens to speak freely and to petition the government to redress grievances.

It's the amendments, specifically the first ten amendments known as the Bill of Rights, that the citizens pay the most attention to.

Citizens United overturned a century of legal doctrine when it ruled that pursuant to the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment, corporations and labour unions have the right to spend unlimited amounts of money through ads, commercials and other political tools to support or oppose candidates for office.

«In fact, she's already called for higher taxes on individuals and small businesses; she supports an energy plan that would increase our electricity costs; she promises a single - payer health care system that would further destroy our health care and economy; and she wants to force federal gun restrictions that would take away the Second Amendment rights of law - abiding citizens.»

The Romanian Parliament, also dominated by USL, is currently debating the modification of the 2003 Mining Law and considering amendments which would facilitate important erosion of citizens» rights, particularly by allowing foreign companies to expropriate the lands and houses of Romanian citizens on behalf of the Romanian government.

Asked about the state's response to the mass shooting at Broward County's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, DeSantis said he would have approached a school - safety bill, which included new restrictions on gun sales, «differently because I think it scapegoated law - abiding citizens in terms of their Second Amendment rights.»

@Avi it is not necessary to look at the 14th amendment; constitutional protections for non-citizens go back at least to the bill of rights, which also use the words «person» and «people» rather than «citizen.»

«He has said himself that he was not acting as a board member, he was acting as a personal citizen with his First Amendment rights,» BTF President Phil Rumore said of Paladino.

-LSB-...] citizens exercising their Second Amendment right like convicted sex offenders, the newspaper has hired armed security after addresses of editors and executives were published online in the same -LSB-...]

In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations and unions can be considered individuals as far as their political contributions are concerned and that restricting their ability to donate to candidates amounted to a violation of their First Amendment right of free speech.

«The SAFE Act has done little to keep Western New Yorkers safe and has taken away the Second Amendment rights of law abiding citizens,» Collins spokesperson Sarah Minkel said in a statement responding to our findings.

Amendment 9b was critical, concerning the rights of EU citizens to remain in the UK after it had left the Union.

Although remain - supporting Tories overwhelmingly voted in favour, some are still threatening to rebel when the Commons considers amendments to the bill next week, citing issues such as the rights of EU citizens to stay in the UK.

The High Court in Accra, Human Rights Division, presided over by His Lordship Justice Anthony K. Yeboah, will today [Monday] deliver judgment on the case filed by five citizens over the delayed implementation of the Representation of the People Amendment Act also known as the ROPAA law, 2006 [Act 699].

The House of Lords will start debating the Article 50 bill on Monday with amendments tabled to guarantee the rights of EU citizens in the UK, for greater scrutiny on the process and for a «meaningful vote» at the end of Brexit negotiations.

WHEREAS, this legislation is viewed by many citizens of the State of New York as being extremely controversial as those citizens view this Legislation as infringing upon their rights guaranteed to them under the second Amendment of the United State Constitution; and

«I will always fight to protect human life as sacred, and will defend our citizen's right to keep and bear arms under the 2nd amendment of our Constitution.»

The association approved a resolution that says the SAFE Act is a violation of the Second Amendment of the Constitution and that it infringes on the rights of citizens in the state without due process.

While the precedent recognizes that public employees do not relinquish their First Amendment rights on the job, it does enable a government employer to regulate the speech of its employees differently from citizens.

The purpose of the amendment was to secure the basic civil rights of all citizens, regardless of race, and to give federal judges both...

An ASCD partnership with the Freedom Forum's First Amendment Center sponsors a consortium of schools that explore the rights and responsibilities of citizens in a democracy — and at school.

Asked about the state's response to the mass shooting at Broward County's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, DeSantis said he would have approached a school - safety bill, which included new restrictions on gun sales, «differently because I think it scapegoated law - abiding citizens in terms of their Second Amendment rights.»

The Amendment states: «The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

I am quite aware, sir, that history says the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery in the United States of America in 1865, and that ensuing amendments extended to former slaves the precious rights and protections our nation guarantees to all its citizens regardless of color.

The Humane Society of the United States is joining forces with Missouri's Food for America and other family farmers and concerned citizens in urging Missouri voters to oppose Constitutional Amendment 1, misleadingly named the «Right to Farm» measure.

In the most obvious sense, the exhibition speaks to the right of citizens to come together as a body, an element of political freedom enshrined in many declarations of human rights, including the First Amendment of the American Constitution.

The First Amendment right to freedom of association was gutted as federal officials were authorized to prosecute citizens for alleged association with «undesirable groups.»

Veenstra is calling upon Eby and Premier John Horgan to scrap the proposed amendments as they restrict the rights of citizens to receive full and fair compensation and create new, exclusive resolution processes for disputes outside of the courts.

President Trump has made it evidently clear he is a true follower of the Second Amendment and whilst throughout his campaign he would shun Hillary Clinton for threatening to take away citizens» rights for protection and freedom, we can all silently acknowledge the fact that the NRA endorsed him during his campaign, as they do with 98 % of Republicans [4].

NEW ORLEANS — Womble Bond Dickinson's Scott MacLatchie will speak on «The Intersection of the First and Fourth Amendments in Interactions Between Citizens and Police Officers» at the 31st annual DRI Civil Rights and Governmental Tort Liability Seminar.

I once had a dream — not the Martin Luther King type dream, but the nodding - off REM - triggered type — where the Founding Fathers had already secured a militia and so harpooned the current Second Amendment in favor of one that read, «In order to secure a fair system of justice, the rights of the citizens to serve on juries shall not be infringed upon,» and the upshot was that the NRA had been replaced by the NJA — the National Jury Association — with their membership demanding — demanding!

It is my understanding that the Supreme Court has upheld the unconstitutionality of enforcing the Flag Code on private citizens or organizations as it conflicts with their First Amendment rights (United States v. Eichman), but are public facilities such as a public schools or police stations required to adhere to the flag code?

If there is a right not to bear arms, it must be very limited - certainly much more limited than the Second Amendment right to bear arms, which is enjoyed by nearly every citizen, and can be exercised simply as a matter of choice.

In their brief, the amici, National Federation of Independent Business Small Business Legal Center, the Southeastern Legal Foundation, and the Cato Institute, contend that the Seventh Amendment Guarantee of a jury trial applies in lawsuits against the United States seeking vindication of a citizen's constitutional rights.

A federal civil rights law, 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, allows United States citizens to file a lawsuit against police officers who violate the Fourth Amendment's protection against the use of excessive force.

42 U.S.C. Section 1983 allows United States citizens to file a federal civil rights lawsuit against police officers who violate the Fourth Amendment's protection against the use of excessive force.

A federal civil rights law, 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 allows United States citizens to sue officers of the law for violating the Fourth Amendment's protection against the use of excessive force.