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

Burning an American flag has been considered protected speech since 1989

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

1989 entschied das Oberste Gericht der USA, dass das Verbrennen der Nationalflagge durch das Recht auf freie Meinungsäußerung gedeckt ist. Donald Trump lässt die Schändung nun…