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Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 5–4, that burning the Flag of the United States was protected speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as doing so counts as symbolic speech and political speech.
14 Νοε 2016 · On August 22, 1984, Gregory Lee Johnson burned a flag at the Republican National Convention in Dallas in a protest about both presidential candidates that year: Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale. Officials there arrested Johnson and convicted him of breaking a state law; he was sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to pay a $2,000 fine.
13 Νοε 2019 · Flag-burning first became an issue in the U.S. after the Civil War, and it's had a colorful and vast legal history since that time. Discover a timeline.
13 Μαΐ 2024 · Here, the Supreme Court ruled that the act of flag burning constitutes symbolic speech protected under the First Amendment. This landmark decision underscored that even deeply unpopular expressions fall under the canopy of freedoms that the framers strove to protect.
21 Ιουν 2016 · Gregory Lee Johnson burned an American flag during a protest against President Ronald Reagan’s policies, who was seeking to be re-elected. A Texas court sentenced Johnson to spend up to a...
11 Ιουν 2015 · Eichman, which was decided exactly 25 years ago, on June 11, 1990, the Supreme Court once again ruled that burning the flag was an example of constitutionally protected free speech.
14 Ιουν 2015 · Among the most controversial of all Supreme Court decisions has its 25th anniversary this month, when a divided Court in June 1989 allowed flag burning as protected free speech. So how did the Court choose to make an unpopular decision about an American institution?
