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Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 5–4, that burning the Flag of the United States was protected speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as doing so counts as symbolic speech and political speech.
Mississippi v. Johnson: 71 U.S. 475 (1867) power of the Supreme Court to constitutionally issue an injunction directed at the President Pervear v. Massachusetts: 72 U.S. 475 (1866) upholding harsh penalty for violation of state liquor laws, and declining to apply Eighth Amendment to the states Crandall v. Nevada: 73 U.S. 35 (1868)
Gregory Lee "Joey" Johnson (born 1956) is an American political activist, known for his advocacy of flag desecration. [1] [2] His burning of the flag of the United States in a political demonstration during the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas, led to his role as defendant in the landmark United States Supreme Court case Texas v.
United States Department of Justice v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: 489 U.S. 749 (1989) FBI rap sheets may not be disclosed to third parties under the Freedom of Information Act: Davis v. Michigan: 489 U.S. 803 (1989) Intergovernmental immunity prohibits state taxation of federal pensions if state pensions are tax-exempt.
In this process, he frequently clashed with Justice Scalia over this issue, and uncharacteristically dissented from Justice Marshall's majority opinion on the subject in Shaffer v. Heitner. [citation needed] In his penultimate and final terms on the Court, he wrote the controversial rulings for Texas v. Johnson and United States v.
In June 2022, a California man who allegedly made threats against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was arrested near the justice's suburban Washington, D.C., home while armed with a gun and ...
Firings, buyouts and restructuring across the federal government are hitting the Department of Justice (DOJ), even as it seeks to defend the Trump administration’s actions amid a flurry of lawsuits.
While writing the majority opinion for United States v. O'Brien, Chief Justice Warren described a series of guidelines used to determine whether a law that restricts speech violates the First Amendment. These guidelines must remain neutral in relation to the subject of the speech at hand (e.g., a speech that criticizes government action and is ...