What about selling MAGA hats as pooper-scoopers?
What are the odds that this Supreme Court would respect a 5-4 decision made a half century ago?
A bunch of the Trump executive orders I have seen, including this one:
a. Are obviously meant to order something illegal.
b. Say that the law wil be followed.
In those cases, I take the exec order seriously but not quite literally. The idea is to outlaw all flag burning, not just serious fire hazard situations.
As for burning stuff being generally illegal, it often has a slight penalty, such as for disorderly conduct, while the flag desecration penalties are high. As I recall, in at least one of the constitutional flag burning cases, the ancillary charges were dismissed.
Right-wingers have been routinely engaging in American flag desecration for my entire life. Think this will be enforced against pop-country singers wearing flags as bandanas?
To be fair, whatever is on that gaudy outfit is not the Flag of the United States.
Stranger
So we can burn it?
With the occupant in it, preferably.
Stranger
Not to mention the number of flags that are left hanging in inclement weather, tattered and torn from trucks/boats, not taken down or put up with proper handling, etc and so on.
Can we imprison TFG for repeated molestation of the American flag?
Flags?
Kid Ross.
So far, I think you have this right:
The Secret Service said in a statement that it detained the man around 6:15 p.m. ET “for igniting an object” and that he was turned over to U.S. Park Police.
Park Police said they arrested the man for violating a statute that prohibits lighting a fire in a public park.
But isn’t the important thing – really and truly – that this is red meat for the red hats, a non-trivial number of whom are still seething over the possibility that their Dear Leader may not be the QAnon demigod they were told he was?
Yes. Unfortunately, that guy burned the flag in a way that gave the police the fig leaf needed to claim they weren’t arresting him for flag-burning specifically.
We need lots of people to burn the flag in an indisputably legal way that gives no fig leaf.
I wonder if there might be an argument for selective prosecution. If 100 people burn things in public parks, and the police only arrest the 1 who burned a flag, it’ll be hard for them to argue that they’re just upholding the law against burning irrespective of the object being burned.