"We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so we dilute the freedom that this cherished emblem represents." ---Texas v. Johnson SCOTUS has already ruled more than once that burning the flag is protected under First Amendment. An EO cannot overturn the Supreme Court
And nothing in the Constitution says a President is immune from the law (it says the opposite), yet here we are. At this point in our Fascist Dictatorship, anything Trump is allowed to get away with is legal.
But the Supreme Court can
But a corrupt criminal Supreme Court can overturn itself 😒
When you’re a MAGA Fascist the Supreme Court says you can just grab the flag by the freedom stripes and violate it.
That action means he now owes every American $130,000.
That only helps when you have a Supreme Court that is independent, follows the rule of law, and more than half of them have not been selected and groomed by people like Leonard Leo and his ilk.
No, but the Supreme Court can. This is just the first step in Trump's process.
TACO can shove every one of his executive orders directly up his ass. I'm sure the rest of the GOP can make some room in there, so they'll all fit.
People would risk their lives to pick up a fabric flag that fell on the ground but I'll be damned if they won't sit and watch people be dehumanized every phucking day. I do not get it.
No, but SCOTUS can and will overturn its own decisions if Trump tells them to.
on the other hand, with THIS SCOTUS, I expect any day now we'll hear that EOs are valid documents for creating new law
Finally flag burning is constitutional.
YEAH!
Kennedy and Scalia were among the fractured Court’s majority in this decision. They also happen to have been the mentors/role models for like half the conservatives on the Roberts Court. I could only see Alito and Thomas affirming this EO
But a corrupt Court with a majority of members in the treason cult can overturn itself
When will it be blasted everywhere reminding what happened on Jan 6? and why did he pardon them if what they did was horrible???
just watch
What will stop them from doing it anyway?
They will overturn their own order for him
Unfortunately, republicans have shredded our Constitution, and our Reich wing SCOTUS has no spine.
But THIS SCOTUS sure will.
Burn baby burn
Also - stupid distraction from the #epsteinfiles
Yeah.... but the Supreme Court can. And will. This, Lawrence v Texas, Obergefel are all dead in the water, just as much as Roe was.
Current Supreme Court majority begs to differ.
Ah, but according to the regime that only applies to citizens. He's planning to hurt noncitizens with this rule.
joined by the bastion of conservatism, Scalia
I posted on this already but the irony: Johnson was a nazi skinhead. He was pretty despicable and just skincrawling. I interviewed him in 91 on his freedom tour after the ruling. His SCOTUS case protected flag burning. Trump is burning down the system while using the flag as fuel. #hailhydra
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What about burning a Trump flag? And a whole bunch of red hats?
But this Supreme Court will follow an executive order from Trump.
Well with this current SCOTUS, the EO is a whine for help from tRump to SCOTUS.
Yes yes yes
except when SCOTUS decides, yet again, that settled law is really not ... meanwhile MAGA yahoos will demand flag burners be arrested (and leo yahoos likely will arrest, despite 99% chance of being dismissed)
Thank you
The barking yam: "Burning a flag? One year in prison. Burning a country down? When you're famous, they let you do it."
If you want to really get under Trumps skin start burning the Russian flag
They would rather hug a piece of fabric than defend the Constitution
I fought in Vietnam to protect our values and even though I don’t agree with burning our flag, it is one of our constitutional rights.
... Until his justice department takes it to the SCOTUS shadow docket and they say it's NOT protected.
Executive Orders are administrative memos, not laws.
I just found a new hobby then. 💗
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I'm not American. I was trying to say that I'll be picking up the slack for silenced US citizens.
It can if the thugs with guns say so.
In Trumplandia it can & if you do not obey, he will order a military strike on your house like his friends Bibi and Vlad do.
Except that the way 💩 handles things, he’ll brag about it at least 24 hours in advance so that you can move people and valuables out of the way before the strike hits.
An EO that intentionally flouts SC precedent is EXACTLY what the Supreme Court Justices were claiming liberal judges were doing.
No, but a corrupt radical SCOTUS can.
Trump is using executive power to try and control expression.
I feel like the maga desecrate the flag all the time, putting it their merchandising
SCOTUS: Hold my beer
“… the Supreme Court” perhaps. But if you think that’s the case with this particular Supreme Court majority, I fear you may be wrong.
An EO can’t make laws or proscribe punishment either, even without the SCOTUS rulings. An Executive Order is limited to the executive branch.
But did THIS Supreme Court rule it? The new paradigm is 1) Do whatever the fuck you want. 2) Ignore any Courts that are not the Supreme Court. 3) Get whatever the fuck you want from THIS Supreme Court ... IF you're THIS Administration.
Also burning is the proper way to dispose of a damaged and or retired flag. But why would we expect anyone in the turd reich to actually know the US Flag code? 😔
What it do just that. You're operating under before times.
That was them and this is now. SCOTUS majority fully aligned with Trump.
True an EO cannot overturn a SCOTUS ruling, but this Roberts’ can and Will once they get the chance
But as long as you can act like The King, as long as no one stops you... you act like The King, and The King gets what he wants.
Fuck Trump! Fuck Trump! Fuck Trump! Fuck Trump! Fuck Trump! Fuck Trump! Fuck Trump! Fuck Trump! Fuck Trump! Fuck Trump!
Not only that. This is how you lay to rest a tattered flag.
But agencies will behave is if it does.
Unfortunately, with THIS SCOTUS, they dont follow precedent - remember Rowe V Wade? Nothing is out of bounds with these Christofascist Nationalist felons
Nationalist Christians, or Nat-C's for short.
Narrator: an EO is NOT a Law. Only Congress can pass LAWS,
Evidently taking shitting on the flag is still OK because Trump wipes his ass on America daily...resist
We are now being ruled by Fascists; they will do whatever they want whether it’s legal or not!
Thank you! I’m so tired of the “happy thoughts only” Dems who keep pretending the status quo is still in play when we’re entering totalitarian dictatorship, & have been living the past 6 months in authoritarian dictatorship. THIS is the negativity of “positive thinking” exemplified. Lost in fantasy!
Corrupt SCOTUS will ignore its own precedent to appease Trump
Trump's brain/mind is in a place where he thinks he is the King of the United States of America. Renaming the Gulf of Mexico??? It all reminds me of "Bagdad Bob" from 23 years ago! It's not meant to be funny but as a mirror to be held up to gauge his behavior! www.liveabout.com/baghdad-bob-...
When Trump began mouthing off about the bombing in Iran, Bagdad Bob did come to mind!
This Supreme Court will roll over for King Donald.
Those Executive Orders that Trump has written will be very valuable if he runs out of toilet paper.
They want to sew division however possible. They probably want overzealous folks to actually burn it as an FU to the regime so they can have a story to feed their propaganda machine.
Let’s test it. To what lengths will SCROTUS go for their chosen leader? National flag burning day. Just turn upside down prior.
Somehow, I suddenly want to burn a flag. What if everyone did it at the same time/day?
But the current one will...
Just more ass clown theater, instead of vaudeville we we have pedoville.
Other countries have flags. They're just not obsessed with them.
Or pass a law. Not in a constitutional democracy. But in an autocracy…
Last time I saw a flag burned it was in a solemn and respectful ceremony for retiring a US flag.