On Aug. 25, President Donald Trump announced an executive order aimed at “Prosecuting Burning of the American Flag.” The administration really wanted us to believe that Trump was making flag burning ...
“In Washington, there is a new sheriff in town,” he said, “and under Donald Trump’s leadership, we may disagree with your views, but we will fight to defend your right to offer them in the public ...
It would have been easy to miss this in the flurry of falsehoods and phony grievances spouted by President Donald Trump this week, but you should really know two things: First, Trump hasn't actually ...
President Trump has long opposed flag burning as a form of protest, and now he's directing the Justice Department to prioritize prosecutions of people who set the American flag on fire. On Monday, ...
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 ...
“If it were up to me,” Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia famously told a group of students in 2015, “I would put in jail every sandal-wearing, scruffy-bearded weirdo who burns the American flag.
Trump’s flag-burning order is totally preposterous—and a total setup. Activists burn American flags on July 4, 2020. Everything Donald Trump says or does can be plotted on a three-dimensional graph ...
The matter arose because President Donald Trump issued an executive order to the Department of Justice instructing Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute flag burners to the full extent of the law.