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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, [1] urinating or defecating on it, defacing it with slogans, [1] stepping upon it, damaging it with stones; bullets; or any other projectile, cutting or ripping it, [1] improperly flying it, verbally insulting it, dragging it on the ground, [2] or eating it, among other things.
The flag burning and graffiti outside Union Station drew strong criticism from Republican U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson and Hakeem Jeffries, the chamber's Democratic leader.
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 ...
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.
Burning the Flag: The Great 1989-1990 American Flag Desecration Controversy. Kent State University Press. ISBN 9780873385985. Goldstein, Robert Justin (1996b). Desecrating the American Flag: Key Documents of the Controversy from the Civil War to 1995. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9780815627166. Welch, Michael (2000).
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