The President-elect, Donald J. Trump is looking to ignore the first amendment, after suggesting any one that burn the US flag should go to jail or be stripped of their citizenship.
The President-elect propose the stiff penalty via his preferred communication medium, Twitter on Tuesday, he wrote;
Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!
Though we are not sure of what could have prompted the tweet by the President-elect, but after the election in November 10, a US College, Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, decided to remove the flag from their campus after it was burned down by unknown students of the school as a part of protests.
Though the United State supreme court has twice affirmed the right to desecrate the American flag as a form of free speech -- a historically contentious issue -- in cases before the high court in 1989 and 1990.