President Trump signed an executive order aimed at prosecuting flag burning, despite existing Supreme Court precedent protecting it as free speech. The Supreme Court's 1989 ruling in Texas v. Johnson ...
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Years before Trump’s executive order, McConnell helped block a constitutional amendment to ban flag burning
President Donald Trump’s executive order to criminalize burning the American flag isn’t the first Republican effort to ban the provocative protest. In fact, the party came within a single vote of ...
President Donald Trump on Monday unveiled a series of executive orders aimed at further curtailing crime and disorder nationwide. Among them was one requiring the attorney general to prioritize, to ...
The president wants to prosecute protesters who desecrate the American flag, but his order concedes that such protests are typically covered by the First Amendment. By Charlie Savage and Luke ...
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The First Amendment: America’s supreme safeguard and Trump’s challenge with his flag burning order
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is widely hailed as one of the most powerful pieces of legislation ever enacted, protecting core freedoms of speech, religion, press, assembly, ...
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