MGT Introduces Amendment to Ukraine Bill – Members Who Vote ‘in Favor’ Required to Join Ukrainian Military

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced an amendment requiring members to “conscript in the Ukrainian military” if they vote for the Ukraine supplemental bill. pic.twitter.com/n0SykKpA3I — Juliegrace Brufke (@juliegraceb) April 17, 2024 Greene’s amendment comes as House Republicans released the legislative text regarding four bills wrapped into one, according to CBS News. Under the three bills, …

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Rand Paul — I will allow FISA 702 spying bill to expire if I don’t get a vote on my amendment.

https://twitter.com/RedWave_Press/status/1779991441516765220 Check these quotes from Rand Paul. Senators in both parties are warning the expanded surveillance authority under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) could lapse after Friday because of a battle over amending the House bill, which has become a target of conservative Republicans and some Democrats. Opponents of the bill could drag the …

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Ohio lawmaker introduces bill to repeal 16th Amendment

Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) proposed legislation aimed at repealing the 16th Amendment, which allows the government to tax people’s income. The congressman brought up his legislation in an interview with Just the News, No Noise on Wednesday. Among the four co-sponsors are Reps. Mary Miller (R-IL) and Ronny Jackson (R-TX). “Originally the country didn’t have …

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MSNBC Legal Analyst Says First Amendment Makes America Vulnerable, Calls for Censorship

by Chris Black When this first started in 2017, after Trump’s election, they said that saying mean things on the internet would cause people to kill themselves. Seriously, that was the argument. You can look it up. Then you got the “election meddling” and “Covid disinformation.” We always hear about “hate speech,” but frankly, that …

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Supreme Court weighs social media laws, challenging censorship and First Amendment implications. Significant precedent at stake.

EXACTLY: “The platforms are not newspapers. Their censorship is not speech.” That’s from one of the opinions up for oral argument in the Supreme Court today. Quoted in “Supreme Court to Hear Free Speech Challenges to Social Media Laws/The tech industry argues that laws in Florida and Texas, prompted by conservative complaints about censorship, violate the First …

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Another Win: Massachusetts State Ballot Law Commission Tosses 14th Amendment Case Against Trump

Yet another state – this time, Massachusetts – has rejected claims that former President Donald Trump is ineligible to be on GOP presidential primary ballots because he participated in an “insurrection” on Jan 6, 2021. If he had in fact participated in an insurrection, he could not run for president because of the 14th Amendment’s …

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Democrats Propose Bill to Restrict Paramilitary Activity, Faces Criticism for Potential Impact on Second Amendment

Democrats Introduce Bill to Effectively Destroy the Constitution’s Last Line of Defense Against Tyranny, ENDING Militias and the 2nd Militias who like to spend their weekends training to overthrow the government could find themselves running afoul of federal law, under new legislation being proposed in the House and Senate Thursday that seeks to curtail paramilitary …

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BREAKING: Supreme Court to hear Trump’s 14th Amendment ballot case, oral arguments set for February 8.

Supreme Court agrees to weigh whether Trump can be kicked off ballot in Colorado The case raises a novel legal question under a constitutional clause that prohibits those who have “engaged in insurrection” from serving in the federal government. WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider whether former President Donald Trump could …

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The Colorado ruling was stayed by the same Colorado court who issued it. Nothing has changed. The ruling doesn’t go into effect. The U.S. Supreme Court will settle the 14th Amendment argument once and for all in January. This now becomes the 3rd Trump related case before the Supreme Court. This one will get a very quick ruling.

The Colorado Supreme Court’s historic ruling deems Donald Trump ineligible for the 2024 presidential race due to the 14th Amendment’s insurrection ban. The 4-3 decision accuses Trump of engaging in the Capitol insurrection, upholding the trial judge’s findings. While confirming that the insurrectionist ban applies to the presidency, the ruling opens the path for Trump’s …

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Colorado Supreme Court to hear 14th Amendment challenge to Trump today at 3 pm eastern.

Washington — A closely watched legal fight that aims to keep former President Donald Trump off the ballot in Colorado under a rarely invoked provision of the 14th Amendment is set to come under review by the state’s supreme court on Wednesday. The challenge to Trump’s candidacy in Colorado is just one in a nationwide fight underway in …

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GOP Senator In Florida Proposes Amendment to Ban Reparation Payments to Black Residents In State

via atlantablackstar: A Republican state senator from Florida introduced a constitutional amendment on Monday, Nov. 27, aimed at prohibiting the state and all local level governments from paying reparations to Black residents for slavery. Sen. Blaise Ingoglia of Spring Hill, who is the former chairman of the state Republican Party, proposed the amendment, which will come up for …

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Huge 2nd Amendment victory in 4th Circuit.

via bearingarms: A decade ago, Maryland lawmakers imposed a new burden on residents hoping to exercise their Second Amendment right to keep and bear a handgun by creating a “Handgun Qualification License.” Before any would-be gun owner can take possession of a pistol, they must first jump through several state-mandated hoops, from submitting fingerprints as …

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Harrison Floyd, Leader of ‘Black Voices for Trump’, Faces Jail Time for “Crime” of Exercising First Amendment Rights

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) and lawyers for a defendant in the Georgia racketeering case involving former President Trump will face off in court Tuesday as the state’s top prosecutor seeks to revoke Harrison Floyd’s bond over incendiary social media posts. Floyd, a leader of Black Voices for Trump who was charged alongside …

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Holton Township in Michigan declares 2nd Amendment sanctuary & forms militia

On Tuesday evening, the Holton Township Board of Trustees adopted a resolution declaring the township a Second Amendment Sanctuary as well as adopting an addendum establishing a township militia. Holton Township is located in Muskegon County. Similar to Livingston County, which last April passed a resolution naming it what’s been dubbed a Second Amendment Sanctuary, …

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Bathhouse Barry Obama Says He’s Close to a “First Amendment Absolutist,” Then Adds a “but,” Criticizes “Certain Kinds of Speech”

President Barack Obama has reemerged in the media, as the election campaign in the US is picking up pace. And he got his two cents in on a range of issues, including free speech in the context of the First Amendment, “misinformation,” social networks vs. democracy – as his politically like-minded comrades like to position …

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7th Circuit: AR-15s Not Protected by Second Amendment

7th Circuit: AR-15s Not Protected by Second Amendment ⁦@BreitbartNews⁩ https://t.co/oG1hniUUDR — AWR Hawkins (@AWRHawkins) November 4, 2023 On Friday, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit overturned an injunction against Illinois’ “assault weapons” ban, deciding that AR-15s are not protected by the Second Amendment. The preliminary injunction was …

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The death of the first amendment- “conservative “ Supreme Court says it’s illegal to call for boycotts against Israel

The United States Supreme Court has opted not to review a law that penalises boycotting Israel in the state of Arkansas, leaving in place a lower court’s decision to uphold the measure. Free speech advocates lamented the decision on Tuesday while stressing that the move does not mean that the top court is asserting the …

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