Earlier this week, President Donald Trump signed an government order that will make it a legal offense to burn the American flag, even if, in 1989, the U.S. Supreme Courtroom dominated that burning the flag was protected speech below 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 assert the ruling didn’t embrace situations through which the act of burning the flag might incite violence.
“However the Supreme Courtroom’s rulings on First Modification protections, the Courtroom has by no means held that American Flag desecration carried out in a way that’s prone to incite imminent lawless motion or that’s an motion amounting to ‘combating phrases’ is constitutionally protected. See Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, 408-10 (1989),” White Home officers wrote.
However Democratic leaders are declaring one other obtrusive concern with Trump’s newest authoritarian order: even when it’s only enforced in circumstances 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 shedding his bid for a second time period by claiming again and again that the election had been rigged in opposition to him. For all the month and a half between Nov. 20, 2020 and Jan. 6, 2021, Trump shouted from each rooftop he might discover that he received the election, and the Democrats stole it, regardless of dozens of judges throughout decrease courts, appellate courts and the Supreme Courtroom, 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 immediately resulted in a riot on the U.S. Capitol.
“If Trump needs to throw the e book 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 workers has spent the final couple of weeks getting below the pores and skin of Trump, MAGA-fied Republicans and particularly the wonderful 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 concerning the American flag” together with a information story about Jan. 6 rioters tearing down a U.S. flag whereas making an attempt 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 obtrusive hypocrisy as they’re to essential thought — one other factor this administration seems to be making an attempt to make unlawful.
What a tragic, pathetic and, frankly, fascist technique to run a rustic.
