Joey Johnson, a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party Youth Brigade, was the defendant in the Texas v. Johnson flag-burning case. In 1984 he was arrested for burning a flag at the Republican ...

Outside the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, Gregory Johnson set fire to an American flag. Texas code at the time banned intentional “desecration of a venerated object ...

it did not specifically declare flag desecration a constitutionally protected form of free speech until the landmark ruling in Texas v. Johnson. According to Steve Heyman, a law professor at Illin ...

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His comment was in reference to the Supreme Court's 1989 decision in Texas v. Johnson, which found a man named Gregory Lee Johnson had a Constitutional right to burn the American flag during the ...

Outside the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, Gregory Johnson set fire to an American flag. Texas code at the time banned intentional “desecration of a venerated object ...