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Wednesday, December 7, 2005

Burn on Hillary

Posted by on December 7 at 13:28 PM

Today’s NYT trashes Hillary Clinton for co-sponsoring a bill with Utah Republican Sen. Robert Bennett to criminalize burning the American flag.

In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that flag-burning was protected by the First Amendment.