Government,
Constitutional Law
Dec. 2, 2016
First Amendment in Trump's cross-hairs
On Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump tweeted out the following: "Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag -- if they do, there must be consequences -- perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!"
Eric B. Kingsley
Partner
Kingsley & Kingsley APC
Labor & Employment
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Email: eric@kingsleylawyers.com
Loyola Law School; Los Angeles CA
Eric is the former board chair of the Anti-Defamation League's Los Angeles Region.
On Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump tweeted out the following: "Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!" While I think that Trump's continued use of Twitter is a distraction to the real issues that the American people need to be focused on including his extremist cabinet picks, proposals to dismantle Medicare, and his many conflicts of interest, his tweet brings up an issue that is worth...
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