Trump signed an executive order threatening to charge people who burn flags near other violent crime.

US president attempts to circumvent 1989 supreme court decision which said flag burning is protected speech

Trump signed an executive order threatening to charge people who burn flags near other violent crime.

The orders come amid Trump's crackdown on the nation's capital.

The US Supreme Court ruling says flag burning is an expression protected under the First Amendment of the Constitution.

Trump attempts to go around court’s 1989 ruling that right to burn flags is protected speech – key US politics stories from Monday 25 August

A man has been arrested near the White House for setting an American flag on fire shortly after President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Justice Department…