Results for: dissent from supreme power

Senator Sinema Should Make 2022 Her Year of Revenge
https://townhall.com/columnists/spencerbrown/2022/02/03/senator-sinema-should-make-2022-her-year-of-revenge-n2602764
– Senate than has been seen recently from Schumer, Biden, or nearly any other Democrat Senator.  … All this from the party that claims to be committed to diversity.  … With a looming Supreme Court confirmation to fill Justice Breyer’s seat, Democrats can’t afford any dissent from their own party.…
Trudeau’s Canadian Fascism Is a Bigger Threat to America Than Putin
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2022/02/24/tr…an-fascism-is-a-bigger-threat-to-america-than-putin-n2603631
– They love the idea of criminalizing dissent – look at the January 6th witch trials – and they are taking notes.   … We have protections and structures that will help prevent that from ever having to happen again, like the Constitution. … After all, we are not submissives from Ottawa.…
Biden Nominee Argued Against Free Speech Near Abortion Clinics
https://townhall.com/columnists/terryjeffrey/2022/03/02/bide…e-argued-against-free-speech--near-abortion-clinics-n2603997
– Would that comply with the First Amendment, which denies government the power to make any law "abridging the freedom of speech"? … President Joe Biden's nominee to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court argued in a federal court case that the government … The year before this Massachusetts law came up in the 1st Circuit, the Supreme Court reviewed a similar Colorado law that prohibited…
Judging in the Judiciary Committee
https://townhall.com/columnists/terryjeffrey/2022/03/23/judging-in-the-judiciary-committee-n2604911
– Connecticut, the Supreme Court reviewed a Connecticut law that banned contraception. … In his questioning of Jackson, Cornyn quoted from Black's dissent in that case. … Wade, he would not have nominated her to the Supreme Court.…
After Bucha, the World Must Never Delay Justice for Crimes Against Humanity
https://townhall.com/columnists/majidrafizadeh/2022/04/09/af…ust-never-delay-justice-for-crimes-against-humanity-n2605666
– The “death commissions” responsible for those trials were empaneled in the wake of then-Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini issuing a … In comparison to the massacre in Bucha, the 1988 massacre of Iranian prisoners took place relatively far from the public eye. … Islamic extremism are core features of the clerical regime’s strategy for maintaining power.…
An Unrepentant Pastor and the First Amendment
https://townhall.com/columnists/lizmurrill/2022/04/04/an-unrepentant-pastor-and-the-first-amendment-n2605407
– Amendment leads the Bill of Rights and is a key feature of virtually every state’s constitution for good reason: if we cannot be free from … This case from the outset has been an affront to both the state and federal constitutions. … There is no limit to this type of power grab.…
The DHS Disinformation Board and the Attack on Individual Sovereignty
https://townhall.com/columnists/jonathanemord/2022/04/30/the…tion-board-and-the-attack-on-individual-sovereignty-n2606540
– security has rendered his official title an oxymoron, divulged (conveniently on the heels of Elon Musk’s planned liberation of Twitter from … Jankowicz favors government regulation to rid conservative voices from media and endorses as fact two major falsehoods: that the Hunter … and press, insisting that the federal government has no power to establish an official speech orthodoxy by banning dissent.  …
Here's Why the Supreme Court Just Upheld Biden's Immigration Policy
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2023/06/23/suprem…upholds-biden-immigration-policy-on-a-technicality-n2624908
– The Supreme Court's 8-1 decision in United States v. … In his dissent, Justice Alito explained his differing perspective: This sweeping Executive Power endorsed by today’s decision may … Because the majority shuns that duty, I must respectfully dissent.…
Democrats' Assault on 'Our Democracy'
https://townhall.com/columnists/joshhammer/2023/07/07/democrats-assault-on-our-democracy-n2625449
– this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous." … There are few threats as vehemently anti-"democratic" as that of packing the Supreme Court. … from Regime orthodoxy.…
Do You Love America?
https://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2023/07/06/do-you-love-america-n2625355
– The Declaration of Independence was a lie; the Constitution was merely a guise for power. … Biden's response: He pledged to utilize the executive branch to work around the Supreme Court's ruling. … celebrate the founding for what it was: a breakthrough in the nature of human governance, a ringing statement in favor of liberty from
The One Speech Ingraham Says Republicans Should Play If They 'Want to Win in 2024'
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2023/07/18/becky-pringle-speech-n2625858
– reading scores among U.S. teens, many of whom were pushed into Zoom school during pandemic lockdowns, thanks in large part to pressure from … Right here in Florida, we will preserve and strengthen a democracy that was steeped in the power of “We the People!”  … Both ended their blistering rebukes with these powerful words: I dissent. NEA, we ALL dissent!…
No, Israel Is Not in Existential Danger of Civil War
https://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2023/07/27/no-israel-is-not-in-existential-danger-of-civil-war-n2626265
– That reform curbs the overweening power of the Israeli Supreme Court, which declared in the 1990s that it had the unilateral ability … Now that a religious and traditional coalition has taken power, many secular Israelis feel truly insecure. … far more authoritarian to shut down the workings of an elected government via non-electoral means than to shift power from an unelected…
Beware Iranian Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
https://townhall.com/columnists/struanstevenson/2023/07/25/beware-iranian-wolves-in-sheeps-clothing-n2626147
– US, to normalize relations and end the diplomatic discord that has persisted since the Islamic Revolution brought the mullahs to power … ’s Gestapo, and their militia thugs the Basij, to crush dissent. … His degree in physics from the American University in Beirut and PhD in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…
Informal Censorship Is Worse Than Book Burning -- And It's Here
https://townhall.com/columnists/armstrongwilliams/2023/07/20…censorship-is-worse-than-book-burning-and-its-here-n2625962
– president promises to consider antitrust suits to break up newspaper monopolies and retroactive legislation prohibiting newspapers fromSupreme Court condemned a comparable scheme of informal government censorship in Bantam Books v. Sullivan (1963). … support for amending Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to dimmish the legal safe harbor social media companies enjoy from
Is Biden the Worst President Ever? A Historical Assessment.
https://townhall.com/columnists/robnatelson/2023/08/06/is-bi…en-the-worst-president-ever-a-historical-assessment-n2626538
– Abuse of Power In the past, major presidential abuses of power occurred primarily in time of war. … So is purporting to transfer student debt obligations from those who benefited from them to those who did not. … One was the debacle accompanying American withdrawal from Afghanistan.…
Lina Khan Keeps Dodging Congressional Oversight to Effect Her Radical Agenda
https://townhall.com/columnists/david-b-mcgarry/2023/07/31/l…ongressional-oversight-to-effect-her-radical-agenda-n2626437
– checks, and independence from established legal precedent and ethical norms. … Meta in 2022 requested Khan’s recusal from the case. … “The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse,” James Madison said…
The Left Unmasks Its Hatred of Individual Freedom
https://townhall.com/columnists/spencerbrown/2022/04/21/the-left-unmasks-its-hatred-of-individual-freedom-n2606133
– Cities barred residents from going outside maskless, even when alone on an empty street. … Nonessential workers were prohibited from leaving their homes. Travelers were required to wear masks at all times. … It’s the same message from leftists, liberal media, and elected Democrats — your freedom is what they decide it is.…
Coercion Disguised As Consensus Is Unconstitutional Just the Same
https://townhall.com/columnists/lathanwatts/2022/05/17/coerc…ised-as-consensus-is-unconstitutional-just-the-same-n2607352
– The larger point that Secretary Levine’s comments demonstrates is the attempted silencing of dissent. … If all dissent is crushed, it’s easy to confidently declare there is no disagreement. … Supreme Court has agreed to hear her case.…
Get Cynical, Get Angry, And Stay Free
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2018/11/12/get-cynical-get-angry-and-stay-free-n2535724
– The only thing they care about is their own power, they absolutely intend to steal every election they can, and everything they say … Is our glorious press, those defenders of democracy that seek to keep it from dying in darkness and stuff, on the case? … They believe they should have power and that you should shut up and obey.…
Supporting LGBT Rights and a Religious Baker at the Same Time
https://townhall.com/columnists/seanduffy/2017/11/28/support…lgbt-rights-and-a-religious-baker-at-the-same-time-n2415096
– sincerely preclude them from endorsing same-sex marriage. … Supreme Court. While of little solace to the couple that was understandably angered by Mr. … as they should and must be and the ability to appropriately dissent based on one’s religious beliefs.  …
SCOTUS: EPA, You ‘Unreasonably’ Interpreted The Clean Air Act
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2015/06/29/scotus-epa-you-unreasonably-interpreted-the-clean-air-act-n2018820
– point of having a separate provision for power plants was to treat power plants differently. … The Government concedes that if the Agency were to find that emissions from power plants do damage to human health, but that the technologies … Furthermore, the EPA’s carbon limits for power plants are expected to shut down more than half of the nation’s coal-fired power plants…
It’s the End of America as We Know It, and America Feels Fine
https://townhall.com/columnists/justinhaskins/2015/06/27/its…end-of-america-as-we-know-it-and-america-feels-fine-n2017714
– powerful nation in the world threw in the towel today on the entire notion of what it means to live in a “land of liberty,” when its Supreme … today by Chief Justice John Roberts—a man so opposed to the cause of liberty that his career would make Benedict Arnold blush—the Supreme … But as the Supreme Court ruled today, none of that matters.…
Destroying Religious Freedom to Save It
https://townhall.com/columnists/robertknight/2015/07/07/destroying-religious-freedom-to-save-it-n2022039
Supreme Court announced the previously unknown constitutional “right” to impose same-sex “marriage” on all 50 states, the American … from settled public policy on matters of race or sexuality, we need to take a more radical step. … Viewed that way, it’s not a stretch to have the government assert taxing power over ecclesiastical property.…
Don't Give Up On America
https://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2015/07/03/dont-give-up-on-america-n2020775
– We all seem to agree that to a great extent politics flows downstream from culture. … How quickly their true intentions emerged once they scored their Supreme Court victory. … They are determined to use the power of the state and economic coercion to neuter and punish dissenters.…
So Much for the Constitution – Is America Now a Rudderless Ship?
https://townhall.com/columnists/jerrynewcombe/2015/07/01/so…the-constitution--is-america-now-a-rudderless-ship-n2020188
– Recently we have seen judicial activism on steroids at the Supreme Court. … of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court.” … In short, what matters now is who’s got the power---in this case one man, Justice Anthony Kennedy.…
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