Column: Grasping for divisive issues, Trump revives a real loser — banning flag burning (via latimesopinion)
Back in 1968, Congress passed the Federal Flag Desecration Law after Vietnam War protesters destroyed American flags. Eventually, 48 states also banned flag desecration.
By 1989, the court had rendered invalid all state and federal laws aimed at protecting the flag from protesters., arose from an incident that occurred in Dallas at the 1984 Republican National Convention. Not one to relinquish his constitutional rights, Johnson was arrested in 2016, outside the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, where he burned a flag in protest “because,” he said, “America was never great.” A judge dismissed his case, and he later won aJohnson was arrested again last year in front of the White House, during Independence Day celebrations, for burning a flag to protest what he called Trump’s “fascist agenda.
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