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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp last week
#SCOTUS in Texas v Johnson, 491 US 397 (1989), & reaffirmed in US v Eichman, 496 U.S. 310 (1990), ruled that due to the #FirstAmendment to the #US#Constitution, it is #unconstitutional for a #government (whether #federal, #state, or #municipal) to prohibit the desecration of a #flag, due to its status as "symbolic speech."

#law#FreeSpeech #democracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #tyranny
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/496/310

https://web.archive.org/web/20080222063040/http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/faclibrary/case.aspx?case=US_v_Eichman

In this photo, Gregory “Joey” Johnson, in whose name flag burning has been held constitutionally protected, holds a flag sent to him by an unknown well-wisher in 1989. In Texas v. Johnson (1989), the Supreme Court held that Johnson’s burning of the flag was protected expression under the First Amendment. (AP Photo/David Cantor, used with permission from the Associated Press)
In this photo, Gregory “Joey” Johnson, in whose name flag burning has been held constitutionally protected, holds a flag sent to him by an unknown well-wisher in 1989. In Texas v. Johnson (1989), the Supreme Court held that Johnson’s burning of the flag was protected expression under the First Amendment. (AP Photo/David Cantor, used with permission from the Associated Press)
In this photo, Gregory “Joey” Johnson, in whose name flag burning has been held constitutionally protected, holds a flag sent to him by an unknown well-wisher in 1989. In Texas v. Johnson (1989), the Supreme Court held that Johnson’s burning of the flag was protected expression under the First Amendment. (AP Photo/David Cantor, used with permission from the Associated Press)
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