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#amendment

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Feike 🇪🇺🇳🇱

@MEActNOW but the freedom of speach in the #Dutch #Constitution is much worse: it's poorly written, the government can do the #sensorship it wants, no judge is going to stop them.

#grondwet #drukpers

So, the US's first #amendment is still much better.

denederlandsegrondwet.nl/id/vk

www.denederlandsegrondwet.nlArtikel 7: Vrijheid van meningsuiting; censuurverbod - Nederlandse Grondwet
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atomicangel

@blogdiva

The irony that I personally am seeing is my stepdad actively encouraging me to get my FOID (Illinois gun card) card and acquire a piece to carry on my person.

He doesn't realize if I had one at all times it would likely get used to stop right wing #fascism if I had such an opportunity. He just so fervently believes in the 2nd #Amendment that he's blind to this kind of thing.

He's one of those individuals that believes if you just comply, cross the border legally, etc. that you wouldn't have any issues. If it wasn't obvious, I disagree.

Nonilex

A Statement from #ConstitutionalLaw Scholars on the government's funding cutoff at #ColumbiaUniversity

— Eugene Volokh, Michael C. Dorf, David Cole, & 15 other scholars

The #USgovernment may not threaten #funding cuts as a tool to pressure recipients into suppressing #First #Amendment protected #speech.

#law #Constitution #CivilRights #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #ThoughtPolice #ViewPointDiscrimination #dissent
nybooks.com/online/2025/03/20/

The New York Review of BooksA Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia | Eugene Volokh, Michael C. Dorf, David ColeWe write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to defend academic freedom and the First Amendment in the wake of the
petersuber

The US Archivist just decided 𝗻𝗼𝘁 to certify the #EqualRightsAmendment (#ERA).
archives.gov/press/press-relea

“In 2020 and again in 2022, the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice affirmed that the ratification deadline established by Congress for the ERA is valid and enforceable. The OLC concluded that extending or removing the deadline requires new action by Congress or the courts. Court decisions at both the District and Circuit levels have affirmed that the ratification deadlines established by Congress for the ERA are valid."

Congress originally set the ratification deadline at March 1979, and later voted to extend it to June 1982.

National Archives · Statement on the Equal Rights Amendment Ratification ProcessArchivist of the United States Dr. Colleen Shogan and Deputy Archivist William J. Bosanko released the following statement today on the Equal Rights Amendment and the constitutional responsibilities for administering the ratification process: “As Archivist and Deputy Archivist of the United States, it is our responsibility to uphold the integrity of the constitutional amendment process and ensure that changes to the Constitution are carried out in accordance with the law.
#Amendment#Constitution#ConstitutionalAmendments
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Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈

‘They don’t want the #smell of #TheDevilsLettuce’: #Fascists #RonDeSantis and #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump go to #war over #weed.

Trump, a #Florida #resident, said he’d be (#illegally) #voting for the #amendment that would #legalize #recreationalpot in the #state for #adults, even as DeSantis #campaigns against it.

— Even though trump hasn't been sentenced yet he is still a convicted felon and under Florida law has already lost his right to vote.

politico.com/news/2024/09/19/t

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Chuck Darwin

A motion was filed Monday after Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft ❌tried to get the #abortion #amendment off of the November ballot.

On Monday, Ashcroft sent a letter to Tori Schafer, a lawyer for the woman who proposed the amendment, 🔥stating that his office has #decertified the Amendment 3 petition for the Nov. 5 ballot.

He claimed that the amendment would be decertified over “serious concern about whether the proposed petition satisfies the legal requirements for adequate notice to the public.”

The amendment, better known as #Amendment3, was ruled invalid Friday by a Cole County judge. ⚠️Judge Christopher Limbaugh ruled that the ballot measure should have included language stating that the amendment would repeal the state’s ban on abortion.

✅Former Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice Mike Wolff told First Alert 4 that Judge Limbaugh’s ruling was wrong and he expects the state Supreme Court to overrule it.

He said Limbaugh mistakenly applied the rules for an initiative petition seeking to change an existing law and applied them to an initiative petition that seeks to change the state constitution.

“What I am shocked by is that for the first time since our current constitution was enacted 79 years ago, that somebody actually misread this statute and the Constitution to come to this result.

I think it’s a complete misreading of the law,” said Wolff.

✅An appeal of the ruling was filed Saturday afternoon, and it will be heard by the Missouri Supreme Court beginning at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday.

firstalert4.com/2024/09/09/mis

KMOV4 · Motion filed to hold Ashcroft in contempt of court after Missouri Secretary of State moved to get abortion amendment off November ballotBy First Alert 4 Staff
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Chuck Darwin

Churches are breaking the law and endorsing in elections
-- The IRS looks the other way.

For nearly 70 years, federal law has barred churches from directly involving themselves in political campaigns,
but the IRS has largely abdicated its enforcement responsibilities as churches have become more brazen about publicly backing candidates.

Six days before a local runoff election last year in Frisco, a prosperous and growing suburb of Dallas,
Brandon Burden paced the stage of KingdomLife Church.

The pastor told congregants that demonic spirits were operating through members of the City Council.

Grasping his Bible with both hands,
Burden said God was working through his North Texas congregation to take the country back to its Christian roots.

He lamented that he lacked jurisdiction over the state Capitol,
where he had gone during the 2021 Texas legislative session to lobby for conservative priorities like expanded gun rights and a ban on abortion.

“But you know what I got jurisdiction over this morning is an election coming up on Saturday,” Burden told parishioners.

“I got a candidate that God wants to win. I got a mayor that God wants to unseat. God wants to undo. God wants to shift the balance of power in our city. And I have jurisdiction over that this morning.”

What Burden said that day in May 2021 was a violation of a long-standing federal law barring churches and nonprofits from directly or indirectly participating in political campaigns, tax law experts told ProPublica and The Texas Tribune.

Although the provision was mostly uncontroversial for decades after it passed in 1954, it has become a target for both evangelical churches and former President Donald Trump, who vowed to eliminate it.

Burden’s sermon is among those at 18 churches identified by the news organizations over the past two years that appeared to violate the #Johnson #Amendment, a measure named after its author, former President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Some pastors have gone so far as to paint candidates they oppose as demonic.

At one point, churches fretted over losing their #tax-#exempt #status for even unintentional missteps.

But the IRS has largely abdicated its enforcement responsibilities as churches have become more brazen.

In fact, the number of apparent violations found by ProPublica and the Tribune,
and confirmed by three nonprofit tax law experts,
is greater than the total number of churches the federal agency has investigated for intervening in political campaigns over the past decade, according to records obtained by the news organizations.

In response to questions, an IRS spokesperson said that the agency “cannot comment on, neither confirm nor deny, investigations in progress, completed in the past nor contemplated.”

Asked about enforcement efforts over the past decade, the IRS pointed the news organizations to annual reports that do not contain such information.

texastribune.org/2022/10/30/jo

The Texas Tribune · Churches are breaking the law and endorsing in elections, experts say. The IRS looks the other way.For nearly 70 years, federal law has barred churches from directly involving themselves in political campaigns, but the IRS has largely abdicated its enforcement responsibilities as churches have become more brazen about publicly backing candidates.
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