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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump and his administration are likely set to challenge a Supreme Court ruling that protected the burning of the American flag under the First Amendment with a new executive order ...

To the editor: So many people still cannot understand that expression that they find the most offensive is protected by the 1st Amendment. Racist speech is protected. Pornography is protected. So is ...