What constitutes desecration of a grave is a key question for a jury this week in Knox County Criminal Court. Phillip D. Wright, 50, is charged with desecrating graves in East Tennessee Veterans ...

but the Supreme Court has long held that flag desecration is a First Amendment right. In Pennsylvania and Delaware, state laws deem it a misdemeanor to desecrate the flag. In New Jersey ...

First codified in 1923 by, I shit you not, the National Americanism Commission, the Flag Code was officially written into law ...

Regardless, it was neither the intent nor the results that sparked the arguments. It was the treatment of the flag, which some called "shameful" and a "desecration." But while it is true that putting ...

The flag was hanging on the roof of a hypermarket.