Texas v. Johnson
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In Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989), the 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court held that burning an American flag is a form of symbolic speech protected under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
This caused a political uproar and an effort by Congress to ban flag-burning by statute. That effort was also declared unconstitutional.