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, ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump and his administration are likely set to challenge a Supreme Court ruling that protected the burning of the American flag under the First Amendment with a new executive order ...

Donald Trump signed an executive order that effectively bans burning the American flag. Flag burning has a longstanding history as a form of political expression, and it's the U.S. Code's preferred ...

President Donald Trump wants to prosecute flag burning, but can he make that happen without violating Supreme Court precedent? Trump contends it’s possible in an Aug. 25 executive order that instructs ...

[1.] The order doesn't purport to cover all flag desecration, presumably recognizing that the Supreme Court has held that flag desecration as such can't be banned. See, e.g., Texas v. Johnson (1989); ...

Flag burning is dumb. But even arch-conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia knew it’s protected free speech. Sipa USA USA Today Network file photos Flag burning is dumb. It doesn’t happen ...

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 ...