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Guy in military clothing with an American flag on his shoulder burns an American flag in front of the white house while being filmed by bystanders.

Guy gets detained

Apparently the EO declares burning flags in protest to be "incitement to riot"

source: https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1n06xgy/detained_for_burning_the_american_flag/

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[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 76 points 1 year ago

This is well-established law. A decision made by SCOTUS.

Texas v. Johnson

Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 5–4, that burning the Flag of the United States was protected speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as doing so counts as symbolic speech and political speech.

So this is absolutely pathetic of the Trump administration. These charges have no chance of sticking. It's just authoritarian bullying.

[-] Aquaphobi@lemmy.zip 47 points 1 year ago

You know what else was well established law? I’ll wait.

[-] mean_bean279@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

Pretty much everything prior to this partisan Supreme Court. This new court just says “fuck it” and does what it wants.

[-] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

That little document that makes all the rules?

[-] Aquaphobi@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Instructions unclear, the constitution is now a docker compose file

[-] Steve@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Lots of things that used to be called crimes against humanity but are now just another tuesday?

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