President Trump signed an executive order prescribing a one-year jail term with no early release for burning an American flag. An official said injuries resulting from flag burning could lead to charges under the order. Trump has repeatedly advocated a one-year sentence and called critics who cite unconstitutionality "stupid people," and said he would work with lawmakers to "get that done." Senator Josh Hawley introduced legislation to increase penalties for flag burning tied to federal offenses. The Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that flag burning is protected symbolic speech and struck down a 1990 congressional criminalization.
If you burn a flag, you get one year in jail, no early exits, no nothing,
Now, people will say, 'Oh, it's unconstitutional.' Those are stupid people,
If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment," Justice William Brennan wrote for the majority in the court's 1989 opinion, "it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.
I were king, I would not allow people to go around burning the American flag.
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