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rsdsharp

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18. Texas v Johnson

Reply to niyad (Reply #3)

Wed Jun 24, 2020, 01:02 PM

Jun 2020

A 5-4 1989 decision authored by William Brennan and joined by Kennedy and Scalia among others. It held that flag desecration is protected by the First Amendment.

Trump has no conception of the Constitution, or that it is the supreme law of the land that trumps (sorry) any statute to the contrary.

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