WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Monday cracking down on suspects who desecrate the American flag, including burning it, by mandating they face prosecution ...

A Black Lives Matter protester burns an American flag outside the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse on Monday, July 20, 2020, in Portland, Ore. Several hundred demonstrators gathered at the ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday directing the Justice Department to pursue criminal penalties against people who “desecrate” the American flag—including by burning ...

In the wake of Donald Trump seeming to ignore Supreme Court precedent and push to criminalize burning the American flag, leaders and commentators on the right are arguing that defacing LGBT+ Pride and ...

The president wants to prosecute protesters who desecrate the American flag, but his order concedes that such protests are typically covered by the First Amendment. By Charlie Savage and Luke ...

A protester carries the carries a U.S. flag upside, a sign of distress, next to a burning building Thursday, May 28, 2020, in Minneapolis. Protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died ...

In a landmark 1989 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag in protest is protected speech under the First Amendment. The order describes the flag as the country's "most ...