Trump Says Flag Burning is a crime, first amendment be damned

President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi are a dream when it comes to trying to Vioolate americans’ right to free speech.

Bondi claims to have Figured out A Way to Prosecute People for Burning The Us Flag without Violating Texas v. JohnsonThe 1989 Supreme Court Decision that Rules Flag Burning is Protected under the first amendment.

“We will do that without running after the first amendment,” She said.

Oh, okay, as long as you say so.

Generally, criminalizing speech that the supreme court has said is protected by the first amendment… Runs Afoul of the first amendment. But since both trump and bondi think they are the smartest people in the room, let’s entertain the logic in his dumb Executive OrderIssued on Monday, that would put people in jail for desecrating the American flag.

Trump and Bondi are not going to prosecute flag burning as such. INTEAD, they will prosecute people for desecrating the flag if they decide it is likely to incite some additional imminent lawless action, beCause the Supreme Court Has Nevere Held that that it As if bonded for one moment she is the most powerful lawyer in the country, she slapped one citation in here to back this up – to the Supreme Court Case That Rules it was protected. Good luck Figuring out what she’s trying to say here.

They will also also prosecute people for flag burning if it discriminates Against American Citizens or Violates their CIVIL Rights. It is exhausting to keep explaining to the attorney general of the united states that Protected First Amendment Expression cannot, by its nature, Violate Someone’s Civil Rights. But hey, what about that immigrants who burn it, huh ??

“American Flag Burning is also used by groups of foreign nationals as a calculated act to intimidate and threaten vioolence against against Americans because of their nationality and place of birth of birth

See Above and Go Read the Flag-Burning Case You Read in Law School, Pam. In throwing out texas’s law criminalizing flag burning, the Supreme Court basically told people to stopping such things:

We are Fortified in Today’s conclusion by our conviction that forbidding criminal punishment for conduct such as johnson’s will not endanger the special role Played by out Inspires. To Paraphrase justice holmes, we submit that nobody can suppose that one gesture of an unknown man will change our nation’s attitude legs and flags.

All of this is red meat for trump’s base, but it’s also just a way to attack immigrants. Per his order, “The secretary of state, the attorney general, and the secretary of homeland security, acting with their respective authorities, shall deny, prohibit, Terminate, or Revke Visas, Residence Permits, Naturalization Prosedings, And Other Immigration Benefits, or Seek Removal from The United States, Pursuant to Federal Law… Whenever there has been an appriete an apprietie deeterignation Have engaged in American flag-DESECRATION Activity Under Circumstans that Permit The Exercise of Such Remedies Pursuant to Federal Law. “

What exactly is the definition of “American Flag-Desecration Activity” for which you could be rendered to prison? Who can say! But to be perfectly frank, we do know whats like to disrespect the flag in a professional way that wounds our country as a whole: the jan. 6, 2021, Insurrectionists, who were whipped into a froth at trump’s behest, Used The American Flag to attack law enforcement. Got your desecration right here, pal.

No matter how trump phrases it, He cannot create a criminal cause of action out of thin air. If Conservatives Want This So Bad, Get Congress to Pass It and Get Your Conservative Pals on the Supreme Court to RULE it constituted.

Thought the Executive Order Trided to Be Vaguely Crafted Enough to Imply that theyldn’t prosecute unless the desecration Violated some other underlying law, trump Coldn’t even Keep it togeether for the Duration of the signing ceremony.

“You Burn a Flag, You Get One Year in Jail,” He said. “You don’t get 10 years. You don’t get one month. You get one year in jail. And it goes on your record, and you will see flag burning stopping stopping immediatily.”

If Bondi can illegally arrest and try to prosecute someone by pretending this executive Order is a law, the administration might get Get Lucky. None of the Supreme Court Justices Who Decided The Flag case remain on the bench. Who Knows – With this plant of conservatives who believe the only speech that should be protected is anything that offends their tiny conservative Christian Eyeballs, Trump MIGHT HAVE A ShOT.