President Donald Trump on Monday unveiled a series of executive orders aimed at further curtailing crime and disorder nationwide. Among them was one requiring the attorney general to prioritize, to ...

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Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 Flag burning is protected by the First Amendment, despite Trump’s executive order criminalizing it. VINCENT FEURAY/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images Donald ...

Going against a 1989 U.S. Supreme Court ruling—and the First Amendment—President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Aug. 25 that criminalized burning the American flag. Flag burning has a ...

President Donald Trump doesn’t appreciate it when anyone sets fire to the American flag. I don’t either. Yet, I value the First Amendment more. On Aug. 25, Trump signed an executive order that seeks ...

It would have been easy to miss this in the flurry of falsehoods and phony grievances spouted by President Donald Trump this week, but you should really know two things: First, Trump hasn't actually ...

Although flag-burning has never been popular in America, condemning it has long been a staple for politicians. On Monday, President Donald Trump joined the chorus by issuing an executive order calling ...

Trump’s flag-burning order is totally preposterous—and a total setup. Activists burn American flags on July 4, 2020. Everything Donald Trump says or does can be plotted on a three-dimensional graph ...

In the advertising world, there is an old adage that there are times when you take a pitch and "run it up the flagpole to see who salutes." That expression came to mind Wednesday when President Donald ...

Donald Trump signed an executive order that effectively bans burning the American flag. Flag burning has a longstanding history as a form of political expression, and it's the U.S. Code's preferred ...