Donald Trump Proposes New Crime with ‘Automatic’ 1-Year Prison Sentence

Donald Trump proposes new crime with ‘automatic’ 1-year prison sentence

President Donald Trump proposed a new crime in his speech Tuesday at Fort Bragg.

Ron Paul Rewind: Don’t Ban Flag Burning - LewRockwell

In a Tuesday speech at Fort Bragg, President Donald Trump declared that “people that burn the American flag should go to jail for one year,” something Trump proceeded to state he is working with United States senators to bring about. Twenty-two years ago this month, members of the United States House of Representatives were debating on the House floor whether they should approve H. J. Res. 4, a proposed constitutional amendment that would have e…

Hawley cranks up the heat on American flag burners with bill adding year to prison time

Sen. Josh Hawley introduced legislation adding one year in prison for burning American flags during riots on Thursday, a proposal he discussed with President Donald Trump amid riots in Los Angeles.

Trump proposes ‘automatic’ year in jail for action protected under 1st Amendment

The president wants this action protected by the Constitution to be illegal — with people getting a one year prison sentence if they take part in it.

Flag-burning can’t be criminalized without trampling the Constitution

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 flag with up to one year of imprisonment. Hawley and Trump might want to brush up on the Constitution before doing so. “These are animals, but they proudly carry the flags of other countries. They don’t carry the American flag. They only burn it. Did you…

Why Donald Trump and Josh Hawley are wrong to call for jailing people who burn the American flag

The Supreme Court ruled decades ago that burning the flag is protected by the First Amendment, no matter how offensive that act may be.