Trump signs order aiming for one-year jail terms for flag burning

[Ocelot II]

14. Not quite; they apply to the actions of federal *agencies.*

They are binding only on the executive branch and its agencies. An EO can direct a federal agency as to how it should implement the statutes and regulations that control the agency, but it can't override acts of Congress or Supreme Court decisions. Many of Trump's EOs do exceed his Constitutional authority, and this is likely one of them. It purports to direct the DoJ to prosecute flag-burners, but in 1989, in Texas v. Johnson, the Supreme Court held that flag-burning is expressive speech protected by the First Amendment.