On Aug. 25, President Donald Trump announced an executive order aimed at “Prosecuting Burning of the American Flag.” The administration really wanted us to believe that Trump was making flag burning ...

It would have been easy to miss this in the flurry of falsehoods and phony grievances spouted by President Donald Trump this week, but you should really know two things: First, Trump hasn't actually ...

Trump’s flag-burning order is totally preposterous—and a total setup. Activists burn American flags on July 4, 2020. Everything Donald Trump says or does can be plotted on a three-dimensional graph ...

“If it were up to me,” Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia famously told a group of students in 2015, “I would put in jail every sandal-wearing, scruffy-bearded weirdo who burns the American flag.

President Trump has long opposed flag burning as a form of protest, and now he's directing the Justice Department to prioritize prosecutions of people who set the American flag on fire. On Monday, ...

President Donald Trump wants to prosecute flag burning, but can he make that happen without violating Supreme Court precedent? Trump contends it’s possible in an Aug. 25 executive order that instructs ...

A few Saturdays ago, several families worked at Sunset Middle School to get the football field ready for the upcoming season. The coach tasked my family with cleaning up around the scoreboard. He also ...

The Issue: A presidential order that seeks to punish burning the American flag with one year in jail. I am a Trump supporter, but his executive order criminalizing the burning of the flag is not only ...

When President Trump signed his August 25th executive order setting guidelines under which burning an American flag can be prosecuted, we quickly learned how ignorant his critics are about the ...

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Welcome back as we take another look at your highlighted comments. This week President Donald Trump signed an executive order requiring the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate and prosecute ...