Flag burning
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An Army veteran who was arrested after burning an American flag near the White House told Newsweek he would welcome taking the fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Jan Robert Carey, who goes by Jay, said he burned the flag in Lafayette Square on Monday as a "direct challenge" to an executive order that President Donald Trump had signed hours earlier, directing the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute people for burning the American flag.
Though the order acknowledged the Supreme Court's 1989 ruling that flag burning is protected under the First Amendment, it said there is room to prosecute if it "is likely to incite imminent lawless action" or amounts to "fighting words."
Carey, 54, who received a Bronze Star during the Iraq War, had traveled to Washington from North Carolina for a veterans' protest against the deployment of National Guard troops in the nation's capital.
Then he saw the news about the executive order.
https://www.newsweek.com/veteran-burned-us-flag-supreme-court-battle-2121475
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