You're listening to KFI, AM 640, the Bill Handel show On Demand, on the Iheart Radio app.

This is Handel on the law, marginal legal advice, where I tell you you have absolutely no case.

Strangely enough, we have another Trump story, and there's a lot of Trump slash legal stories out there.

So the president signed an executive order targeting the burning of the American flag as a crime.

And that's the problem because the burning of the flag has been ruled by the Supreme Court

as protected under the First Amendment, political speech, actually.

Now, this is interesting because the order doesn't outright criminalize the burning of the American flag,

but directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to prioritize enforcement

against cases of flag desecration. Well, that's also protected, where existing laws were violated.

You can desecrate the flag all you want. Now, it is horrific. A lot of people have died for that flag, or at least what the

flag represents, but it is protected. This is America where you can say whatever you want,

as long as, well, you can even defame people. They're not going to stop you from doing that. Now,

you have to pay the price. You can be sued, but you can't be nailed for burning a flag. It's just

that simple. So how do they get someone from burning a flag? Well, how about local ordinances

burning anything on public property?

You just, you can't burn a box, right?

You can't set a bunch of clothing on fire because local ordinances say no,

and this would be in the same category.

A flag would be put into that category.

So the executive order, oh, by the way, he says, if you burn a flag, you get one year in jail, no early exits, no nothing.

That's a problem because he's not the one that decides.

He said while he was signing the order.

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