In both cases, the Supreme Court ruled that burning a flag is an act of expression and “symbolic speech,” and exactly they type of action that the First Amendment was designed to protect.

The subject came up in the context of people burning flags at protests of Israeli Prime ... the justice was a proto-Trumpian type who likely would have agreed with the former president’s instinct.

Scalia said he would outlaw flag-burning “if I were king.” But the First Amendment exists to protect “speech critical of the government. That’s the main type of speech tyrants would seek ...

Scalia said he would outlaw flag-burning “if I were king.” But the First Amendment exists to protect “speech critical of the government. That’s the main type of speech tyrants would seek ...

because the Supreme Court has twice ruled that flag burning is a type of political expression. That means it is protected from government punishment by the First Amendment, regardless of what ...

Sounds worse, so I use it. But at the Democrat National Convention, I watched those American flags burning all over the place. I think it’s a disgrace. And they said it’s unconstitutional to ...

Burning any type of flag or religious object is constitutionally-protected speech under the First Amendment, said Burt Neuborne, a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley ...

Those are stupid people that say that.” Trump claimed that if Congress passed a law instituting such a rule, the flag burning would cease. In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled in Texas v.

In response to the flag burning, former President Donald Trump told Fox and Friends on Wednesday that he believed those who burn or damage the American flag should face jail time. Trump also ...

Flag burning has been used as an act of political protest and resistance throughout American history, but it wasn’t until the late-20th century that it became recognized as a constitutionally ...

Honoring those who made the sacrifice. This Memorial Day, the Marine Corps League is retiring American flags, remembering the ...