President Donald Trump signed an executive order Aug. 25 seeking to penalize people who burn flags, although courts have long upheld the practice as legitimate expression under the First Amendment.
"If you burn a flag, you get one year in jail," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, although the order doesn't specify a jail sentence. "You will see flag burning stop immediately."
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"SCOTUS already ruled on this one and they said that it was a violation of the first amendment to ban the burning of the American flag. This will go nowhere fast.
#18 | Posted by LauraMohr"
Burning the flag is still legal under the EO.
The EO is about how you are using the flag burning, are you trying to incite the crowd?
This does bring up another question, why is some flag burning illegal and others not? Why isn't all flag burning a first amendment right?
for instance:
Fifteen years in Iowa jail for burning pride flag
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We read and understood the article, #2 Son... and you make a much better Reverse Barometer than you do an interpreter.
#6 | POSTED BY CORKY
Read the EO, don't read some propaganda meant to stir up your emotions.
Look at all the idiots here. All riled up about nothing absolutely nothing the EO says.
Burning the flag is a predicate to a crime.
From the EO:
Notwithstanding the Supreme Court's rulings on First Amendment protections, the Court has never held that American Flag desecration conducted in a manner that is likely to incite imminent lawless action or that is an action amounting to "fighting words" is constitutionally protected. See Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, 408-10 (1989).
My Administration will act to restore respect and sanctity to the American Flag and prosecute those who incite violence or otherwise violate our laws while desecrating this symbol of our country, to the fullest extent permissible under any available authority.
www.whitehouse.gov
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