At the White House last week, Trump signed another one of his infamous executive orders, this time announcing, “If you burn a flag, you get one year in jail.” Not so fast. If the executive order said that, as Yale Law Professor Jed Rubenfeld persuasively argues in The Free Press, it would be unconstitutional on its face. Under current law, that is. And isn’t that really the point? In 1989, the Supreme Court held in […]
Flag Burning: Trump’s Latest Stunt
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