Trump Says Anti-Israel Protesters Burning American Flag Should Receive 1-Year Jail Sentence

Speaking on “Fox & Friends” on Fox News Channel Thursday, July 25, the morning after protesters in Washington, D.C. burned the American flag to protest Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress, President Donald Trump called for those demonstrators who burned the American flag in public to face a one-year jail sentence. As background, the Supreme Court held in Johnson v. Texas, which was decided n 1989, that flag-burning is a form of speech, and so is protected by the First Amendment. While arson, the burning of buildings, and public fires can be made illegal, which would include flag burnings, the punishment…