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 ...
In the advertising world, there is an old adage that there are times when you take a pitch and "run it up the flagpole to see who salutes." That expression came to mind Wednesday when President Donald ...
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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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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