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"If you burn a flag, you get one year in jail," Trump said. His executive order aims to sidestep the First Amendment.

Neil Gorsuch was nominated by President Trump in 2017 to fill the seat vacated upon the death of Antonin Scalia. Scalia strongly supported the right to burn flags as protected speech. Trump has asked ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order to criminalize burning the American flag isn’t the first Republican effort to ban the provocative protest. In fact, the party came within a single vote of ...

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 ...

When President Donald Trump announced an executive order last month to prosecute those who burned the American flag, he reignited an intraconservative argument about First Amendment protections and ...

President Donald Trump said his administration "took the freedom of speech away" as it relates to flag burning. During an Oct. 8 roundtable discussion on Antifa, Trump referenced conservative ...

People are free to express themselves in the United States, even – and perhaps especially – when it comes to criticizing the nation and the government. That’s a right protected by the First Amendment.

An Army veteran who set fire to an American flag near the White House to protest President Donald Trump's recent executive order on flag burning pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal criminal ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order requiring the Justice Department to investigate ...

A strong defense of flag burning appeared in these pages recently from Christopher Scalia. As you'd expect from a patriot, he made his argument while nevertheless disapproving of the incendiaries and ...

WASHINGTON — Lawyers for a North Carolina veteran facing criminal charges for burning a flag in protest near the White House say they plan to file a constitutional challenge seeking to have the case ...