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 ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday directing the Department of Justice to prosecute, to "the fullest extent possible," any Americans who desecrate the country's flag. While ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting flag burning, an issue he has personally complained about for years, has sparked fierce debate as the Trump administration tries to find legal ...

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, ...

Although flag-burning has never been popular in America, condemning it has long been a staple for politicians. On Monday, President Donald Trump joined the chorus by issuing an executive order calling ...

The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that if it were up to him, he would jail “every sandal-wearing, scruffy-bearded weirdo who burns the American flag,” But the Constitution, the ...

A resurfaced video of former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia defending the right to burn the American flag has gone viral after President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning the ...

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