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Fox Host: Trump could prosecute flag burners if he had a new Supreme Court (Original Post) Miles Archer Nov 2016 OP
Just can not make this crap up. Wellstone ruled Nov 2016 #1
Elections have consequences nt doc03 Nov 2016 #2
Make flag burning a crime and people will burn flags. jalan48 Nov 2016 #3
i would burn a flag trueblue2007 Nov 2016 #7
I'll never burn a flag. It's almost as dumb as making flag burning illegal. Bucky Nov 2016 #8
Where are these flag burners Trump is caterwauling about??? C_U_L8R Nov 2016 #4
He could SEE them - and hear them- from Trump Tower no doubt. (Because he saw it on Twitter?) FailureToCommunicate Nov 2016 #5
the dumb, the hateful, and the hornswaggled Bucky Nov 2016 #9
It's hard to imagine Friend or Foe Nov 2016 #6

trueblue2007

(17,228 posts)
7. i would burn a flag
Wed Nov 30, 2016, 10:46 PM
Nov 2016

because i can

On appeal to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals the court overturned his conviction, saying that the State could not punish Johnson for burning the flag because the First Amendment protects such activity as symbolic speech. ... In 1989, the Court handed down its decision. The Supreme Court's decision.
Texas v. Johnson - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._Johnson

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Facts and Case Summary - Texas v. Johnson | United States Courts
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Facts and case summary for Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989). Flag burning constitutes symbolic speech that is protected by the First Amendment.

Bucky

(54,027 posts)
8. I'll never burn a flag. It's almost as dumb as making flag burning illegal.
Wed Nov 30, 2016, 11:27 PM
Nov 2016

But I would take a bullet to defend your right to make whatever statement you want to make about America, however you want to make it.

C_U_L8R

(45,003 posts)
4. Where are these flag burners Trump is caterwauling about???
Tue Nov 29, 2016, 09:09 PM
Nov 2016

On the shores of Jersey City with the thousands of terrorists?????

WTFF??

Friend or Foe

(195 posts)
6. It's hard to imagine
Wed Nov 30, 2016, 09:59 AM
Nov 2016

How many American Legionnaires might lose their citizenship or spend time in prison for doing something their duty calls on them to do.

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