Donald Trump issues order defying Supreme Court precedent [View all]
Source: Newsweek
A new executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Monday will allow for the prosecution of people involved in the burning of the American flag. This is in direct opposition to a precedent set by the Supreme Court in the Texas vs. Johnson case in 1989 that deemed the action an act of "symbolic speech."
The executive order would create a penalty of one year in jail, Trump said during a press conference in the Oval Office. . .
The executive order signed by Trump on Monday is in opposition to a legal precedent set by the Supreme Court in 1989 when it reached a 5-4 decision in Texas v. Johnson. Justice William Brennan wrote that the government could not prohibit expressive conduct merely because society found it offensive.
Should the order move forward, arrests for burning the American flag would face possible legal challenges and could warrant a revisiting of the precedent.
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