There is no such thing as settled case law anymore.
There is only what the John Birch Society and Heritage Foundation tell the Supreme Court to do.
There is only what the John Birch Society and Heritage Foundation tell the Supreme Court to do.
The multiple civil suits that Trump is engaging in as president against pollsters and news organizations for saying things he doesn't like, the arrests + deportation of foreigners for protesting Israel, and the targeting of law firms who represent people opposing the administration don't already indicate this? Going after flag burning just further confirms that we're slowly but surely embracing authoritarianism.
We’re at the point of mobilizing military forces for civilian law enforcement on transparently fictitious formal rationales; the full embrace of authoritarianism in the US is out in the open.