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Trump to crack down on flag burning, desecration with executive order

Airyaman

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Of course this is an obvious violation of the 1A, but MAGA doesn't care about any part of the Constitution outside of the 2A.

Trump to crack down on flag burning, desecration with executive order

President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order on Aug. 21 cracking down on those who desecrate the American flag, including protesters who have burned Old Glory.
www.foxnews.com


Once more, Trump shows his sheer hypocrisy by signing yet another (illegal) executive order.

 
But no condemnation of having flags dragging in the dirt on the back of a pick up truck. Or wearing a flag as apparel. Or disrespecting a flag by touching it or fondling it.
 
Another dumbass MAGAt red meat unconstitutional EO.
 
I fear this E.O. may have a detrimental impact on some of donalds stauchest supporters.
 
This will cause more flags to be burned to prove him wrong. Great job if preventing flag burning was the goal, as well as trampling on well established first amendment rights.
 
In the 90's right wingers were pissing their panties over flag burning
The SC declared that flag burning is protected speech under the 1A.
Trumpolini and his goons don't give two shits about that ruling and this could be a strategy to get the SC to revisit flag burning in hopes they overturn it with the larger goal of stripping more freedoms from Americans.
It's easier to keep prisons full when there's more laws on the books for people to break.
 
Airyaman said:
Of course this is an obvious violation of the 1A…
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What the order actually is doesn’t appear to violate the first amendment.

Prosecuting Burning of The American Flag

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
 

Trump Signs Order on Flag Burning, Which Is Not Illegal

"If you burn a flag, you get one year in jail," Trump said. His executive order aims to sidestep the First Amendment.
time.com

A literal attack on the first amendement / free speech.
More fasicst bullshit from the subhuman piece of shit dictatororial scumbag.
 
Sec. 2. Measures to Combat Desecration of the American Flag. (a) The Attorney General shall prioritize the enforcement to the fullest extent possible of our Nation’s criminal and civil laws against acts of American Flag desecration that violate applicable, content-neutral laws, while causing harm unrelated to expression, consistent with the First Amendment. This may include, but is not limited to, violent crimes; hate crimes, illegal discrimination against American citizens, or other violations of Americans’ civil rights; and crimes against property and the peace, as well as conspiracies and attempts to violate, and aiding and abetting others to violate, such laws.

I don't have to be a lawyer to know that's meaningless babble.
 
What the EO addresses is flag burning as incitement.

“Notwithstanding the Supreme Court’s rulings on First Amendment protections, the Court has never held that American Flag desecration conducted in a manner that is likely to incite imminent lawless action or that is an action amounting to “fighting words” is constitutionally protected. See Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, 408-10 (1989).”

And how to go about punishing it:

“In cases where the Department of Justice or another executive department or agency (agency) determines that an instance of American Flag desecration may violate an applicable State or local law, such as open burning restrictions, disorderly conduct laws, or destruction of property laws, the agency shall refer the matter to the appropriate State or local authority for potential action.”
 

Punishing people is cool.
 
Napoleon said:
What the EO addresses is flag burning as incitement.
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Yes, I read that. There are already laws against incitement.

Read the section I posted and see if you can make sense out of it.

This is ridiculous.
 
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