IndexIntroduction.Flag Desecration and Iran’s Domestic Law International Legal Vacuum The U.S. Constitutional Model India’s ...

Ark., reintroduced legislation Friday proposing a constitutional amendment allowing federal lawmakers to pass legislation preventing the burning or desecration of the American flag.

While burning American flags is protected under the First Amendment, Brianna Laird was charged with third degree arson, ...

Johnson decision protected flag burning as a form of "expressive conduct" under the First Amendment, and the 1990 United States v. Eichman case overturned a federal law criminalizing flag desecration.

The First Amendment further complicates this. Burning or desecrating an American flag you own is protected free speech, as established in Texas v. Johnson (1989). However, stealing or damaging someone ...

Streamer Stepan Scoffy was detained live on air after tearing down a Russian flag bearing President Putin’s image in exchange ...

Our national flag is far more than just red, white, and blue fabric—it is a historic and powerful emblem of the ...

Supreme Court decisions in two Vietnam War-era cases in particular laid the foundation to mount a viable legal defense for those prosecuted for flag desecration. The first case, United States v.

When the veteran was arrested for violating a New York flag desecration law, he said, “Yes, that is my flag; I burned it. If they let that happen to Meredith, we don’t need an American flag.” ...

The Palestine Forum of NewZealand condemns in the strongest terms the disgraceful and provocative act committed by ...

They were unsuccessful. "Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered, and worth revering," wrote Brennan the next year in United States v. Eichman.