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• in Politics
  Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Showdown at the Civil Right Corral
  Will Maricopa County Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio finally get what’s coming to him?
  by jimmyzuma / on Jul 19, 2012
• in Videos
  The Ten Commandments of Flirting With The Westboro Baptist Church
  How exactly does one flirt with the Westboro Baptist Church? Watch these Aussie hunks to find out!
  by kdbarclay / on Jul 5, 2012
• in Politics
  The Controversial KKK Looks to Adopt a Highway
  Why can't the Ku Klux Klan adopt a highway?
  by kdbarclay / on Jun 30, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “first amendment”

 

• Govt presses ahead on another leak case

  
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  In another case of the Obama administration investigating classified information improperly disclosed to reporters, the government is prosecuting a State Department expert on North Korea in a probe... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• You cant yell fire in a crowded theater

  
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  Well we have a brand new brouhaha about surveillance on a journalist. Today its James Rosen of Fox News over a story he published in 2009 about North Korea, based on an insider leak. To be clear, its important to protect journalists. Its equally important to protect leakers when theyre exposing government wrongdoing. ...
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• What Kind of World Will We Have In Two Years?

  
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  As Fox News is outraged by the Washington Post report that the Justice Department has been tracking a reporter seeking information from the State Department, one begins to wonder how far the White House will go to cross First Amendment Rights.It seems that James Rosen has been named a co-conspirator in with a State ...
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• Jessica Ahlquist Explains The First Amendment

  
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  Attention Cranston Mayor Fung: Watch this show, you might learn something. Then apologize to Jessica Ahlquist. PBS is running a 4-part series, Tuesdays at 9pm, Constitution USA with Peter Sagal — “Traveling across the country by motorcycle, Sagal is in search of where the U.S. Constitution lives, how it works ...
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• Gun ownership is the law in town now facing a lawsuit over the requirement

  
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  As debate intensifies nationally around gun-control measures, a small town north of Atlanta faces opposition to an ordinance that requires the head of every household to possess a gun and ammunition. The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence filed a federal lawsuit last week against Nelson, Ga., claiming the law,…
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• Department of Justice’s Attack on the Free Press

  
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  The Washington Post gave us a disturbing look into how the Department of Justice handles a leak probe.  It shouldn’t give anyone who cares about the First Amendment including freedom of the press comfort. When the Justice Department began investigating possible leaks of classified information about North Korea ...
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• NYPD messages to Muslim informant: Get pictures

  
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  A New York Police Department detective told a federal judge that hes seen no evidence that one of his informants brought up the subject of jihad as a way to bait Muslims into making incriminating remarks. But text messages obtained by The Associated Press show otherwise. And while the detective, Stephen ...
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• JUDGE MUZZLES SPEECH OF CHRISTIANS - BUT ARAB FESTIVAL VIOLENCE IS OK

  
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  May 20, 2013 Judge muzzles speech! Dear May, A federal judge in Michigan has ruled that law enforcement officers were justified in muzzling the free speech of a group of Christians. The Christians were standing on sidewalks at an international Arab festival in Dearborn, Michigan. In response to ...
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• For Next Big Religion Case, High Court Goes to Greece

  
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  The Supreme Court is tackling one of the most divisive First Amendment issues, agreeing on Monday to hear a case on whether an upstate New York town violated the Constitution by opening its public meetings with a Christian prayer.
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• Fox News Journalist Pursued by Obama Justice Department as ‘Co-Conspirator’ in Leak

  
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  The extent of the administration of President Barack Obama’s attacks on the First Amendment has been confirmed to include having the Justice Department pursue a Fox News journalist as a “co-conspirator” in a leak investigation. The investigation involves Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, a State Department employee, who ...
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• Lawyer Claims His ‘Slut-Shaming’ Is Protected By the First Amendment — Just Like the Founders Intended

  
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  Hell hath no fury like a patent practitioner romantically scorned. Continue reading » Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook . Tags: 1st Amendment , Arthur J. Usher IV , Arthur Usher IV , Attorney Misconduct , Bad Ideas , Biglaw , Bose McKinney & Evans , ...
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• Obama Administration Spied On Fox News Reporter James Rosen: Report

  
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  The Justice Department spied extensively on Fox News reporter James Rosen in 2010, collecting his telephone records, tracking his movements in and out of the State Department and seizing two days of Rosen’s personal emails, the Washington Post reported on Monday. In a chilling move sure to rile defenders of civil ...
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• Obamas DOJ Tracks Reporters Movements, Obtains Personal Emails; Journalists Unite Against DOJ

  
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  By Susan Duclos Journalists that took exception to the Department of Justices unprecedented seizure of the Associated Press phone records are even more outraged as information is revealed about the Obama administrations other constitutional violations, including t racking reporters movements and obtaining a ...
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• Tracing the History of Freedom of Sexual Expression Under the First Amendment

  
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  Ronald K. L. Collins, University of Washington School of Law, has published Theodore Schroeder and the Pre-1919 Defenses of Free Speech: The Case for Freedom of Sexual Expression as University of Washington School of Law Research Paper No. 2013-16. Here is the abstract. The modern First Amendment began with a turn ...
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• Media Finally Agree With Framer’s Intent?

  
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  Copyright © 2013 Big Dog . Visit the original article at http://www.onebigdog.net/media-finally-agree-with-framers-intent/ . “That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United ...
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• DOJ On ‘Gays’: ‘Silence Will Be Interpreted As Disapproval’

  
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  Under President Obama, “justice” is anything but blind. Neither is it deaf. In fact, based on recent revelations, it appears to be watching your every move and listening to your every word. Still, if you happen to be a federal employee, now it’s even listening for your silence. The only thing this Obama White ...
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• So Here We Are…

  
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  People keep asking me why I’m depressed or upset.  I have some things going on in my personal life, sure.  But there are bigger issues.  One of the things that upsets me is the failure of most to see the bigger issues, and the purposeful avoidance of them on the part of others. The Second Amendment  is under ...
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• Justices Take Case on Prayer at Town Board Meetings

  
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  A federal appeals court found that though the prayer at meetings in Greece, N.Y., could be given by members of all faiths and atheists, in practice almost all of the chaplains were Christian.        
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• AP Says Government Seizure Was Unconstitutional And Has Terrified Sources

  
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  The CEO of the Associated Press said the government’s unprecedented actions to seize phone records of reporters from the news organization was both unconstitutional and has had a chilling effect on sources. The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government’s ...
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• Support Fox News Washington Correspondent, James Rosen and Stephen Jin-Woo Kim

  
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  Is prior restraint from the Obama administration just around the corner, are intimidation and persecution enough? Zealous, careerist-minded US DoJ attorneys and the mindless continuation of the worst aspects of the War on Terror may bring down the legacy of another president, just as surely as the Vietnam War ...
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