Earlier this week, President Donald Trump signed an govt order that will make it a felony offense to burn the American flag, even though, in 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court docket dominated that burning the flag was protected speech underneath the First Modification of that Structure thingy MAGA Republicans fake to care about a lot.
Now, as NewsOne beforehand reported, the White Home additionally acknowledged the SCOTUS ruling on its web site, however went on to say the ruling didn’t embrace situations wherein the act of burning the flag may incite violence.
“However the Supreme Court docket’s rulings on First Modification protections, the Court docket has by no means held that American Flag desecration carried out in a fashion that’s prone to incite imminent lawless motion or that’s an motion amounting to ‘preventing phrases’ is constitutionally protected. See Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, 408-10 (1989),” White Home officers wrote.
However Democratic leaders are stating one other evident subject with Trump’s newest authoritarian order: even when it’s only enforced in instances the place the flag is burned to incite violence, this EO is coming from the identical president who pardoned greater than 1,500 Jan. 6 rioters, who had been completely motivated and incited by his personal propaganda.
From NewsOne:
In 2020, President Donald Trump responded to dropping his bid for a second time period by claiming again and again that the election had been rigged towards him. For the whole month and a half between Nov. 20, 2020 and Jan. 6, 2021, Trump shouted from each rooftop he may discover that he received the election, and the Democrats stole it, regardless of dozens of judges throughout decrease courts, appellate courts and the Supreme Court docket, each election official in states that Trump challenged, the former head of election cybersecurity, Trump’s personal legal professional basic and the Division of Justice all saying unequivocally that it wasn’t true. This propaganda instantly resulted in a riot on the U.S. Capitol.
“If Trump desires to throw the guide at individuals who commit ‘violent crime’ whereas desecrating the American flag, why did he pardon individuals who on Jan. 6, 2021, violently assaulted our cops with American flags-on-poles, calling them heroes and rewarding their bloody flag desecration?” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) tweeted in response to Trump’s newest present of presidency overreach.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom — whose employees has spent the final couple of weeks getting underneath the pores and skin of Trump, MAGA-fied Republicans and particularly the nice of us at Fox Information by mocking Trump’s ridiculous social media rants — additionally weighed in on the matter, tweeting, “Clearly, Donald Trump actually cares in regards to the American flag” together with a information story about Jan. 6 rioters tearing down a U.S. flag whereas attempting to overthrow the federal government based mostly on Trump’s “cease the steal” nonsense.
Sadly, Trump and his senseless followers have already proven they’re as impervious to evident hypocrisy as they’re to vital thought — one other factor this administration seems to be attempting to make unlawful.
What a tragic, pathetic and, frankly, fascist method to run a rustic.
