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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.
A history of U.S. laws banning flag burning and other forms of flag desecration, from 1897 to the proposed Flag Desecration Amendment. On Language: Desecration. Column in the New York Times (July 31, 2005) by William Safire on the use of the word desecration in the proposed amendment. Cracking the Flag-Burning Amendment; A Brief History of Flag ...
Actions that may be treated as the desecration of a flag include burning it, [2] urinating or defecating on it, defacing it with slogans, [2] stepping upon it, damaging it with stones; bullets; or any other projectile, cutting or ripping it, [2] improperly flying it, verbally insulting it, dragging it on the ground, [3] or eating it, among other things.
An upside-down flag display is framed by U.S. Code as a sign of disrespect, except when it's used to signal "dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property." Watch: Upside-down ...
A 1989 U.S. Supreme Court ruling upheld a protestor's right to burn the American flag, but President-elect Trump might want to change that.
A Russian man went viral on social media after heroically saving an American flag from a California home. Russian man saves American flag outside burning California home: 'A symbol to me and my ...
Gregory Lee "Joey" Johnson (born 1956) is an American political activist, known for his advocacy of flag desecration. [1] [2] His burning of the flag of the United States in a political demonstration during the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas, led to his role as defendant in the landmark United States Supreme Court case Texas v.
The White House condemned what it called “disgraceful” protests outside Union Station Wednesday in Washington, D.C., while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave an address to ...