President Trump’s new executive order on flag burning. Is it bold politics or bad law? Or maybe both? Hosts and law professors Eugene Volokh and Jane Bambauer break down what the order really says, how it clashes with First Amendment precedents, and why targeting flag desecration even under otherwise content-neutral laws could violate the First Amendment. They also discuss the tricky question of whether non-citizens can be deported for speech or symbolic expression that is protected for citizens (more on that in this previous episode: https://youtu.be/FgaMp6ofpYA).
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