Trump is against the First Amendment

“Best to ignore, unless & until it becomes something more than an AM red meat serving from Dr. Trump & Mr. Tweet”, Axelrod tweeted.

Social media was itself ablaze on Tuesday in response to Trump’s tweet, which suggested that burning the USA flag should be punishable by a year in jail or a revocation of citizenship. “Perhaps loss of citizenship or a year in jail!”

U.S. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from Bakersfield, isn’t joining President-elect Donald Trump’s call to punish Americans for flag burning.

In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Texas v. Johnson that burning the flag is considered protected speech under the First Amendment.

That case centered on the arrest of Gregory Lee Johnson, who was arrested at the Republican National Convention in Dallas in 1984 after burning the USA flag to protest Ronald Reagan’s administration.

The 2012 Presidential candidate is rumoured to be in line for a position in Trump’s top team, with reports claiming the 69-year-old may be appointed Secretary of State.

Cuomo noted that the Supreme Court ruled that flag burning is protected under the First Amendment, and asked whether Trump communications director Jason Miller agreed.

Some pointed to Hillary Clinton’s sponsorship of a bill to criminalize flag-burning.

“Just burned USA flag at Trump Hotel NYC”. As such, he is unfit and unqualified to serve as commander-in-chief. In 1907, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Nebraska ban on Stars and Stripes beer.

But Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump revived the idea and took it much further than the extreme case of a suspected terrorist. One of the staunchest defenders of the decisions, and a key vote in favor of both, was conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who was widely praised by Republicans after his death in February, including by Trump. “Both the protection of political speech and the inviolability of USA citizenship are longstanding constitutional principles at the very core of American democracy”.

Flag-burners were slammed, with some attributing the efforts to George Soros.

But now that he’s been elected, Trump appears to have reversed himself, tweeting his sentiments earlier this week. Free speech means you are free to speak, but not free from any potential consequences of that speech.

Why does the president-elect disagree with the late Justice Scalia, whom he professes to greatly admire, on this issue? “I might not agree burning the flag is the right way to do that”, said Marvin Murphy.