Biff_Poindexter
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Trump Says He Wants To Punish Flag Burning With A Year In Prison
The Supreme Court has already ruled such legislation unconstitutional, and the Roberts Court is unlikely to reconsider that ruling.
www.forbes.com
When you are down in the polls, didn't sell out your first rally in a deep red state... and also feel like you gotta prove to people you can drink water with one hand -- some times you need something to cheer you up...and what better way to do that than to bring up the tired old flag burning debate again?
"We ought to come up with legislation that if you burn the American flag, you go to jail for one year. One year,” Trump said, claiming that he’s “a big believer in freedom of speech,” but calling flag burning “desecration -- earlier this month Trump asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its Texas v. Johnson ruling, saying “We have a different court and I think that it's time that we review that again. Because when I see flags being burned — they wanted to crawl up flag poles in Washington and try and burn flags but we stopped them."
I wonder what does he think one should get for burning the Confederate flag...the death penalty??