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“I wanna get a law passed […] You burn an American flag, you go to jail for one year. Gotta do it — you gotta do it,” Trump said.
On Monday, Trump complained about pushback to a proposal to sentence people to a year in jail for burning the American flag.
“They say, ‘Sir, that’s unconstitutional.’ We’ll make it constitutional.”
In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled in Texas v. Johnson that while the desecration of the flag may be objectionable, “If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.”
On Monday, Trump complained about pushback to a proposal to sentence people to a year in jail for burning the American flag.
“They say, ‘Sir, that’s unconstitutional.’ We’ll make it constitutional.”
In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled in Texas v. Johnson that while the desecration of the flag may be objectionable, “If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.”
