That included a 2005 bill sponsored by Clinton, then a senator from New York, that would have outlawed flag desecration when the intent was found to be a threat to public safety. There have been multiple attempts in Congress - none of them successful - to get around the court ruling since then. Congress responded swiftly by passing the Flag Protection Act of 1989 - a law that was invalidated by the court’s 1990 ruling. In 1989, a closely divided Supreme Court struck down on First Amendment grounds a Texas statute banning flag burning. Trump’s tweet revives a debate that was settled in the courts more than 25 years ago. “Flag burning should be illegal,” he said repeatedly on the CNN’s “New Day.” Trump transition spokesman Jason Miller defended his boss’s position during an appearance on CNN. “We have a First Amendment right, but where I come from, you honor the flag,” McCarthy said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “If someone wanted to show their First Amendment right, I’d be afraid for their safety, but we’ll protect our First Amendment.” (.)During a television appearance Tuesday shortly after Trump’s tweet, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) suggested that Congress is unlikely to move on the issue of flag burning. Hundreds of veterans and others gathered Sunday to protest the decision by Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., to remove the flag. flags, after someone there burned one in protest of Trump’s election victory over Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Trump did not say what inspired his proposal, but it comes just days after a college in western Massachusetts decided to stop flying all flags, including U.S. citizenship as a form of criminal punishment.
(a 5-4 decision) Moreover, a 1958 Supreme Court decision rejected the practice of stripping U.S.
Eichman, that struck down a law seeking to prevent its desecration. Trump ✔ should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!ĥ3,660 53,660 Retweets 149,913 149,913 likesįlag burning was ruled to be constitutionally protected speech under the First Amendment in a 1990 Supreme Court case, United States v. Trump offered his thoughts in an early-morning post on Twitter, saying, “Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag.”ĭonald J.
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened loss of citizenship or jail for those who burn the American flag, saying such protests - which the Supreme Court has declared to be free speech - should carry “consequences.” Many people have died for what this Flag represents-FREEDOM- and it is very hard to understand why someone would want to burn the Flag of the country that they live in. For many Veterans it is very hard to watch a US Citizen or someone else burn the US Flag as a form of protest. Your thoughts, should US Flag burning be protective 1st Amendment free speech or not.