This week, Donald Trump released yet another executive order, this time aimed at prosecuting the burning of the American flag. The Republicans want to play this off as a patriotic act, and the order ...

When we think of freedom of speech, the spoken word is usually what comes to mind. But the First Amendment of the federal Constitution (and, hence, Article II, section 7 of Montana’s Constitution) ...

The Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that burning the American flag in protest is free speech protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution. Nevertheless, President Donald Trump issued an executive ...

WHEN LEGISLATORS and policymakers try to justify limits on free expression, they often turn to a familiar phrase: "After all, you can't yell 'fire' in a crowded theater." It's a shorthand version of a ...

Half a century later, Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969) remains the Supreme Court’s authoritative ruling on symbolic speech and the First Amendment rights of K-12 ...

In a letter to parents, Baraboo School District Administrator Lori Mueller concluded that the students making the apparent Nazi salute cannot be punished by the school because their symbolic speech is ...