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To: escapefromboston

https://apnews.com/article/trump-executive-order-flag-burning-4628d588350db4f6baf10ae1d91f49c1

The order the Republican president signed in the Oval Office acknowledged the court’s 5-4 ruling in a case from Texas in 1989, but said there is still room to prosecute flag burning if it “is likely to incite imminent lawless action” or amounts to “fighting words.”

“You burn a flag, you get one year in jail. You don’t get 10 years, you don’t get one month,” Trump said. “You get one year in jail, and it goes on your record, and you will see flag burning stopping immediately.”

The order also called for Attorney General Pam Bondi to pursue litigation to challenge the 1989 ruling, an attempt by Trump to get the issue back in front of the Supreme Court. Today’s Supreme Court is much more conservative than the makeup of the court in 1989 and includes three judges Trump appointed in his first term.


Trump stirring the pot but also maybe bring back to the supreme court. Shining the light on the issue in the meantime reveals cockroach’s. All for shining the light.


25 posted on 08/25/2025 6:19:26 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: PeterPrinciple

So Trump is making law through executive fiat?

Not only is he making the law, he is acting as the sentencing judge too?

Cool. Why bother with three branches of Government? We have Trump.


31 posted on 08/25/2025 7:55:17 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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