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President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he wants to impose punishment on people who burn American flags, possibly including imprisonment or loss of U.S citizenship. Trump floated the sanctions, which would run counter to a 1989 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, in an early-morning "Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!" Trump said.
President-elect Donald Trump proposed on Tuesday a penalty - including possible jail time or loss of citizenship - for burning the American flag, in spite of two US Supreme Court rulings that protect the act under the First Amendment as a form of free speech. "Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!" Trump tweeted.
A man who will literally have life and death power over much of humanity seems not to understand or care about the difference between truth and lies. Is there any way for democratic institutions to cope? This is our topic in the post-Thanksgiving week.
Protesters celebrated a major victory in their push to reroute the Dakota Access oil pipeline away from a tribal water source but pledged to remain camped on federal land in North Dakota anyway, despite Monday's government deadline to leave. Hundreds of people at the Oceti Sakowin, or Seven Council Fires, encampment cheered and chanted "mni wichoni" - "water is life" in Lakota Sioux - after the Army Corps of Engineers refused Sunday to grant the company permission to extend the pipeline beneath a Missouri River reservoir.
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to examine whether the nation's busiest state for capital punishment is trying to put to death a convicted killer who's intellectually disabled, which would make him ineligible for execution under the court's current guidance. Lawyers for prisoner Bobby James Moore, 57, contend that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state's highest criminal court, ignored current medical standards and required use of outdated standards when it decided Moore isn't mentally disabled.
The only way to quickly deport 3 million immigrants is to first make them into criminals-and he'll have the tools to do so on day one. William Diaz-Castro is about to become one of thea "criminal illegal immigrants" whom Donald Trump campaigned against for 17 months-and whom, as president-elect, he now plans to deport immediately.
Cruz said on ABC News' This Week that the death of the longtime Cuban leader presents "an interesting test" for U.S. officials over the the next few days. "It is a real opportunity for U.S. officials to show where they stand.
The quoted question in the title of this post comes from the headline of this AP article . Because there are a numberof strange and confusing elements to this AP piece, I am not sure it does even a reasonable job trying to answer the question it poses.
Cuban-Americans in Southern California were overjoyed at the news of Fidel Castro's death on Friday, as the dictator who clung to power for decades and drove many to flee to the United States finally passed. "Throughout Southern California on Saturday, Cuban-Americans hoisted glasses of champagne and waved Cuban and American flags in celebration of Castro's death," the Orange County Register reported .
This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows inmate Bobby Moore. The U.S. Supreme Court this week examines whether the nation's busiest state for capital punishment is trying to put to death a convicted killer who's intellectually disabled, which would make him ineligible for execution under the court's current guidance.
Although Fidel Castro sought to improve Cubans' access to health care, housing, and education, many of his achievements in these areas came at the cost of crushing freedom of expression on the Caribbean island. But to stay in power for nearly 50 years, Castro created a tyrannical one-party state that jailed thousands of dissidents and suppressed freedom of expression, human rights groups say.
Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes.But according... During the Labor Day weekend, when many people are celebrating and preparing for the upcoming school-year, Dakota Access, a... Donald Trump has announced that Steve Bannon-former head of the online racist platform Breitbart-will be a senior adviser in... Jeff Sessions is very possibly our next attorney general which means federal criminal justice reform is very unlikely. Sessions is a disciple of Trump's law-and-order doctrine, an ideology that is directly responsible for America's mass incarceration problem.
In April 2016, Rodrigo Duterte won the Philippine presidential election by a landslide, with more than 6 million votes. He openly declared that he was the nation's first Left president, calling himself a socialist but not a communist.
After a campaign filled with Donald Trump's denunciations of "Crooked Hillary" Clinton, the president-elect declared Tuesday that "I don't want to hurt the Clintons; I really don't," and a top adviser said he had no interest in pursuing further investigations. Trump also said he saw no potential conflicts of interest between his new job and his worldwide businesses, and he disavowed praise and support from extremist "alt-right" groups.
Immigration advocates are asking the Obama administration to release thousands of detained Central American women and children who want asylum in the U.S., citing concerns that Donald Trump will deport them after his inauguration in January. Representatives of groups including the Women's Refugee Commission and the American Immigration Lawyers Association met with White House officials last week to discuss a host of immigration issues, including the fate of about 4,000 Central American detainees, some as young as two years old, who have fled violence in their home countries.
In the message, Google began with a straightforward, disconcerting warning: "Government-backed attackers may be trying to steal your password." This message has been delivered into the inbox of prominent reporters and high-profile individuals in the United States including Politico's Julia Ioffe, The Atlantic's Jon Lovett and former US diplomat Michael McFaul.
Derwyn Bunton, the Crescent City's public defender, has refused to accept serious felony cases, claiming that underfunding means his office can't do its job. Here's the way it can go down in New Orleans, especially if you're black, don't have much money, and find yourself crossways with the law.
The population of American prisons is likely to rise for the first time in nearly a decade with President-elect Donald Trump's promise to detain and deport millions of immigrants who are in the country illegally and his selection of tough-on-crime Sen. Jeff Sessions to the nation's highest law enforcement post. If so, one of the prime beneficiaries would be the private companies that operate many of the nation's prisons.