Trump signs order to investigate flag burning as criminal act
"If you burn a flag, you get one year in jail," President Donald Trump said as he signed executive orders in the Oval Office on Monday.
He signed an order that White House staff secretary Will Scharf said will charge the Justice Department with investigating instances of flag burning and prosecute "when there's evidence of criminal activity."
In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled that flag burning was a form of "symbolic speech" under the Constitution.
"Thank you for protecting the American flag. And we'll do that without running afoul of the First Amendment as well," Attorney General Pam Bondi told the president.

"What it does is incite to riot," Trump said of flag burning. He said under this order, "you will see flag burning stopping immediately."







