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- <title>
- Mar. 05, 1990: American Notes:Flag Burning
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Mar. 05, 1990 Gossip
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 21
- American Notes
- FLAG BURNING
- Back to the Justices
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> After the Supreme Court ruled last summer that laws banning
- flag desecration were unconstitutional infringements on freedom
- of expression, Congress rushed to appease indignant voters with
- a new Flag Protection Act. George Bush and many congressional
- Republicans insisted, however, that nothing less than a
- constitutional amendment could provide real protection for the
- colors. Last week a federal judge in Seattle proved them right.
- </p>
- <p> In a case involving four protesters who set a flag afire in
- front of the Seattle Post Office, U.S. District Judge Barbara
- Rothstein found the Flag Protection Act invalid. Rothstein
- ruled, "Burning the flag as an expression of political dissent...does not jeopardize the freedom which we hold dear." Her
- decision is headed for the nine Justices: the flag law provides
- for expedited appeal to the Supreme Court, which could hear the
- case as early as May.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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