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Trump: When you burn the American flag, it incites riots…

Scharf: What the executive order does, sir, it charges your DOJ with investigating instances of flag burning. And then where there is evidence of criminal activity, where prosecution wouldn't fall afoul of the first… pic.twitter.com/l8VVxSip1c

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 25, 2025

I’m old enough to remember when Trump was going to run roughshod over the courts.

Our constitutional republic does not have any provision which allows a president to enact a criminal statute by executive order that would put people in prison. https://t.co/WU97Kmpxd7

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 25, 2025

Why the aide had to explain it to him. I wonder if that aide’s been fired yet?

(Of course, our constitutional republic doesn’t have any provisions which allows a President to get out of jail free, either. So who knows what the Sinister Six might do?)

(Popehat has an excellent explainer about what the people behind Trump are trying to do here (spoiler: get it in court and overturn precedent), and why it won’t work that way (then again…). Still, I doubt it ever gets that far, despite the fever dreams of Thomas and Alito.)