Trump wants Congress to pass a law so people who burn the American flag will 'go to jail for 1 year'

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• Trump said that people who burn a flag should be sentenced to jail for at least one year at a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
• "We ought to come up with legislation that if you burn the American flag, you go to jail for one year...we ought to do it," Trump said while pointing to Oklahoma's two US Senators in the crowd. 
• The US Supreme Court, however, ruled that burning an American flag is constitutionally protected speech under the First Amendment in 1989. 
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President Donald Trump said that Congress should pass a federal law mandating that people who burn an American flag should go to jail for at least one year during his Saturday night rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 

Over the past few weeks, some demonstrators have burned or destroyed American flags at the protests over racism and police brutality that have taken place across the country. 

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