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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.
Johnson burned the flag to protest the policies of President Ronald Reagan. He was arrested and charged with violating a Texas statute that prevented the desecration of a venerated object, including the American flag, if such action were likely to incite anger in others.
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 · Johnson in 1989. 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 2024 · On June 21, 1989, a deeply divided United States Supreme Court upheld the rights of protesters to burn the American flag in a landmark First Amendment decision. In the controversial Texas v. Johnson case, the Court voted 5-4 in favor of Gregory Lee Johnson, the protester who had burned the flag.
29 Νοε 2016 · In 1968, in response to protestors who burned the flag in anti-war demonstrations, Congress passed a federal law that banned burning and otherwise desecrating the flag.
21 Ιουν 2016 · On June 21, 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court decided 5-4 that under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the burning of Old Glory was a legal exercise of political speech.
