Burning the Koran, they say, is comparable to flag burning, another issue that was hot in the courts in the late 1980s. "It's the same thing," said Kathleen Bergin, a professor at South Texas ...

Trump called for a ban on flag-burning after a pro-Palestine protest in D.C. But protecting dissent is the whole point of the First Amendment.

Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri has apparently heeded President Donald Trump’s call for a ban on flag burning. The senator is reportedly working on legislation to punish those who burn the American ...

"I happen to think if you burn an American flag, because they were burning a lot of flags in Los Angeles, I think you go to jail for one year, just automatic," Trump told the New York Post.

In 1989, the high court ruled that flag burning was a form of "symbolic speech" under the Constitution. The 5-4 decision came in a case involving Gregory Joey Johnson who, outside the 1984 ...

Michael Snow Jr. is set to be sentenced Friday for burning an American flag during protests of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to DC in July.

Man Tries to Rescue American Flag Burning Near DNC. Published Aug 20, 2024 at 10:09 PM EDT Updated Aug 20, 2024 at 10:34 PM EDT. By . Dan Gooding is a Newsweek reporter based in New York City.