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The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority... It is the one guarantee of human freedom to the American people. – Frank I. Cobb	added by Normando 11 months ago
We’re going to continue to litigate the case. And we’ll raise – continue to raise the issue of standing and, of course, the Establishment Clause. – Jay Sekulow	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Depending on how broad you read what a legislative act is, it could permit members of Congress to really cover lots of their conduct within the speech or Debate Clause that I think we would generally not think would be covered. – Neil Eggleston	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The speech and debate clause bars such testimony. – Carl Nichols	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
( T) Chief Justice John Roberts Court's decisions in Trinity Trinity Lutheran and Espinoza prohibit States from denying aid to religious schools solely because of a school's religious status — that is, its affiliation with or control by a religious organization, but Trinity Lutheran and Espinoza have never said that the Free Exercise Clause prohibits States from withholding funds because of the religious use to which the money will be put. – Stephen Breyer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Opening boys’ and girls’ bathrooms to students of the opposite biological sex threatens the privacy and safety of all students, no law requires schools to go down that dangerous path. No controlling precedent holds that Title IX or the Equal Protection Clause means that schools must permit students to use whatever bathrooms they like. – Todd Rokita	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
After assuming away an Establishment Clause violation, Supreme Court revolutionized Free Exercise doctrine by equating a State's decision not to fund a religious organization with presumptively unconstitutional discrimination on the basis of religious status. – Sonia Sotomayor	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Constitution says nothing about a right to same-sex marriage, but Supreme Court holds that the term' liberty' in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment encompasses this right. – Samuel Alito	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The South Dakota law is different, it is modeled after the Texas law, and it says when that heartbeat is detected, that then abortion is not an option. And frankly, since we got to the Texas law in place, lives have been saved. In South Dakota, there's a private right of action clause that is different than the Texas model. But we think that really gives people the option to really not insert the state into that relationship, but make sure that people have the opportunity to go after those doctors that do perform abortions, and save those lives so that we can continue to be bold in doing that. – Kristi Noem	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Ironically, the Emoluments Clause that they used to talk about what Donald Trump has as its purpose to prevent this sort of thing where somebody who becomes president or other people in the family are basically paid off or invested in … by a foreign government. [ The Founders ] had great fear about this sort of thing, $ 31 million pours into the Joe Biden family and Joe Biden doesn't know anything about it. He is the the head of the Joe Biden clan. – Mark Levin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
You know, a city could not put a cross, in my view, on city hall, but in the context of a system where flags go up, flags go down, different people have different kinds of flags, then it is a violation of the free speech part of the First Amendment and not an Establishment Clause violation. The end. – Elena Kagan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
One potential hurdle that the committee must consider is a lawmaker citing the Speech and Debate Clause, which states that a sitting member of Congress is protected from certain inquiries and procedures that originate outside of Congress. But members on the panel and legal scholars alike do not see that as an issue.Michael Flynn sues January 6 committee to block phone records subpoena. – The Speech and Debate Clause	Found on CNN 2 years ago
They want to make it to where candidates that you may not even agree with or approve get money from taxpayers. I mean, it's just ridiculous what they're trying to do here to federalize these elections when it's perfectly clear in our Constitution in Article Two, Section One, Clause Two that the state legislatures are given the right exclusively to set the voting laws in the states and in the union. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment prohibits the Government from imposing religious-based restrictions on the personal decisions of individual citizens, here, the State attempts to use religious criteria to decree to which secondary school parents may send their children simply because the parents receive generally available tuition assistance. This law strikes at the heart of, and is clearly prohibited by, the Free Exercise Clause. – David Boies	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Too often, we have seen well-meaning school officials thinking they are complying with the Establishment Clause mistakenly go too far and censor the private speech of students, violating students’ rights under the Free Speech Clause. – First Liberty	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The 3/5 clause was always seen as a concession to the slave states, not some kind of punishment or restriction. Slaves were not citizens or legal persons in any sense of the term ; they would never enjoy political representation in any form. – Jack Rakove	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This is thefirst law in the nation thatinvokes the state betweenmedical decisions, parents whoconsent to that and the decisionof the patient.And so, this goes way too far.And in fact, it doesn't evenhave a grandfather clause [for] those young people that areunder hormonal treatment. – Asa Hutchinson	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The Supreme Court's procedural order not only wipes away two lower court rulings, but it also orders dismissal of the entire dispute -- leaving for some other time resolution of the many questions Trump's conduct raised about The Emoluments Clause, ordinarily, The Supreme Court pursues such a step only when the prevailing party moots a case while the appeal is pending -- as opposed to here, where the disputes became moot because Trump's term ended. – Steve Vladeck	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The Supreme Court's procedural order not only wipes away two lower court rulings, but it also orders dismissal of the entire dispute -- leaving for some other time resolution of the many questions Trump's conduct raised about the Emoluments Clause. – Steve Vladeck	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Speech or Debate Clause. – The Constitution	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
You can look through the entire Michigan election code that was written by the legislature and signed by governors of both parties. There is no role for the legislature in this process, michigan has a pretty strong separation of powers clause. And appointing members of the Electoral College is not legislating, it's not passing a law. And there's nothing in the Michigan Constitution that would authorize the legislature to do that. – Mark Brewer	Found on CNN 3 years ago
In 21 years of being a judge and sentencing people and looking at terms and conditions of supervised release, I've never seen such a clause. – Alvin Hellerstein	Found on CNN 3 years ago
When I heard about the search warrant for Senator Burr's cell phone, my first thought was' speech or debate clause,' in the case of the FBI's Saturday night raid on Congressman Jefferson's office in the Rayburn House Office Building, Rayburn House had the look and feel of an invasion of Congressional sacred space. And on a bipartisan basis, Congress raised holy hell. Showing up at a Senator's personal residence and politely taking possession of a cell phone ? Not the same vibe. – Bob Trout	Found on CNN 3 years ago
There's no pandemic clause in divorce agreements. – Lauren Behrman	Found on Reuters 4 years ago

The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority... It is the one guarantee of human freedom to the American people.

– Frank I. Cobb

added by Normando
11 months ago

We’re going to continue to litigate the case. And we’ll raise – continue to raise the issue of standing and, of course, the Establishment Clause.

– Jay Sekulow

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Depending on how broad you read what a legislative act is, it could permit members of Congress to really cover lots of their conduct within the speech or Debate Clause that I think we would generally not think would be covered.

– Neil Eggleston

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The speech and debate clause bars such testimony.

– Carl Nichols

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

( T) Chief Justice John Roberts Court's decisions in Trinity Trinity Lutheran and Espinoza prohibit States from denying aid to religious schools solely because of a school's religious status — that is, its affiliation with or control by a religious organization, but Trinity Lutheran and Espinoza have never said that the Free Exercise Clause prohibits States from withholding funds because of the religious use to which the money will be put.

– Stephen Breyer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Opening boys’ and girls’ bathrooms to students of the opposite biological sex threatens the privacy and safety of all students, no law requires schools to go down that dangerous path. No controlling precedent holds that Title IX or the Equal Protection Clause means that schools must permit students to use whatever bathrooms they like.

– Todd Rokita

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

After assuming away an Establishment Clause violation, Supreme Court revolutionized Free Exercise doctrine by equating a State's decision not to fund a religious organization with presumptively unconstitutional discrimination on the basis of religious status.

– Sonia Sotomayor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Constitution says nothing about a right to same-sex marriage, but Supreme Court holds that the term' liberty' in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment encompasses this right.

– Samuel Alito

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The South Dakota law is different, it is modeled after the Texas law, and it says when that heartbeat is detected, that then abortion is not an option. And frankly, since we got to the Texas law in place, lives have been saved. In South Dakota, there's a private right of action clause that is different than the Texas model. But we think that really gives people the option to really not insert the state into that relationship, but make sure that people have the opportunity to go after those doctors that do perform abortions, and save those lives so that we can continue to be bold in doing that.

– Kristi Noem

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Ironically, the Emoluments Clause that they used to talk about what Donald Trump has as its purpose to prevent this sort of thing where somebody who becomes president or other people in the family are basically paid off or invested in … by a foreign government. [ The Founders ] had great fear about this sort of thing, $ 31 million pours into the Joe Biden family and Joe Biden doesn't know anything about it. He is the the head of the Joe Biden clan.

– Mark Levin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You know, a city could not put a cross, in my view, on city hall, but in the context of a system where flags go up, flags go down, different people have different kinds of flags, then it is a violation of the free speech part of the First Amendment and not an Establishment Clause violation. The end.

– Elena Kagan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

One potential hurdle that the committee must consider is a lawmaker citing the Speech and Debate Clause, which states that a sitting member of Congress is protected from certain inquiries and procedures that originate outside of Congress. But members on the panel and legal scholars alike do not see that as an issue.Michael Flynn sues January 6 committee to block phone records subpoena.

– The Speech and Debate Clause

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They want to make it to where candidates that you may not even agree with or approve get money from taxpayers. I mean, it's just ridiculous what they're trying to do here to federalize these elections when it's perfectly clear in our Constitution in Article Two, Section One, Clause Two that the state legislatures are given the right exclusively to set the voting laws in the states and in the union.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment prohibits the Government from imposing religious-based restrictions on the personal decisions of individual citizens, here, the State attempts to use religious criteria to decree to which secondary school parents may send their children simply because the parents receive generally available tuition assistance. This law strikes at the heart of, and is clearly prohibited by, the Free Exercise Clause.

– David Boies

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Too often, we have seen well-meaning school officials thinking they are complying with the Establishment Clause mistakenly go too far and censor the private speech of students, violating students’ rights under the Free Speech Clause.

– First Liberty

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The 3/5 clause was always seen as a concession to the slave states, not some kind of punishment or restriction. Slaves were not citizens or legal persons in any sense of the term ; they would never enjoy political representation in any form.

– Jack Rakove

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is thefirst law in the nation thatinvokes the state betweenmedical decisions, parents whoconsent to that and the decisionof the patient.And so, this goes way too far.And in fact, it doesn't evenhave a grandfather clause [for] those young people that areunder hormonal treatment.

– Asa Hutchinson

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The Supreme Court's procedural order not only wipes away two lower court rulings, but it also orders dismissal of the entire dispute -- leaving for some other time resolution of the many questions Trump's conduct raised about The Emoluments Clause, ordinarily, The Supreme Court pursues such a step only when the prevailing party moots a case while the appeal is pending -- as opposed to here, where the disputes became moot because Trump's term ended.

– Steve Vladeck

Found on CNN
3 years ago

– Steve Vladeck

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Speech or Debate Clause.

– The Constitution

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

You can look through the entire Michigan election code that was written by the legislature and signed by governors of both parties. There is no role for the legislature in this process, michigan has a pretty strong separation of powers clause. And appointing members of the Electoral College is not legislating, it's not passing a law. And there's nothing in the Michigan Constitution that would authorize the legislature to do that.

– Mark Brewer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In 21 years of being a judge and sentencing people and looking at terms and conditions of supervised release, I've never seen such a clause.

– Alvin Hellerstein

Found on CNN
3 years ago

When I heard about the search warrant for Senator Burr's cell phone, my first thought was' speech or debate clause,' in the case of the FBI's Saturday night raid on Congressman Jefferson's office in the Rayburn House Office Building, Rayburn House had the look and feel of an invasion of Congressional sacred space. And on a bipartisan basis, Congress raised holy hell. Showing up at a Senator's personal residence and politely taking possession of a cell phone ? Not the same vibe.

– Bob Trout

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There's no pandemic clause in divorce agreements.

– Lauren Behrman

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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