President Donald Trump is preparing to sign a executive order focused on the burning of the flag, which aims to limit the act without directing the decision of the Supreme Court of 1989, which considered this to be a form of protected free expression, the report said.
The report said with quoting two unnamed administration officials, an order – expected to sign on Thursday – calls on the Ministry of Justice to review cases of flag burning to see if the accusations could be carried out that would not be specific to the flag combust
Trump has long tried to impose penalties for burning the flag, floating punishments, including imprisonment or loss of citizenship after victory in the first presidential election.
During his third presidential campaign, he often raised a problem. In 2024 he proposed that he could seek the constitutional amendment to ban this form of protest. In June, Fort Bragg resumed his sanction request and said he was working with the senators to pass the law that gave the prison time to protesters to comb the flag and propose a year -round punishment.
“People who burn the American flag should go to prison for one year. And we’ll see if we can do it,” Trump said.
A few days later, Senator Josh Hawley, Republican Missouri, introduced legislation trying to add another year in prison to federal crimes that included the burning of the flag.
The US Constitution generally protects speech and peace protests and courts have long claimed that political speech is one of the Sacred forms of Speech. In 1989, the US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 decisions that the burning of the flag itself was a political statement protected by the first amendment and cannot be illegal.
The fact of the flag has appeared as a political problem in the middle of the cramps of the 1960s after some opponents of the Vietnam War began to burn flags as a form of protest. In the following decades, the flag burning punishment has become a cultural point of ignition in tension above the respect of patriotic standards versus the protection of the right to express. The problem has reappeared in recent years, when the flags were burned in pro-Palestinian protests and demonstrations against federal efforts to promote immigration.
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