A Texas court tried and convicted Johnson. He appealed, arguing that his actions were "symbolic speech" protected by the First Amendment. The Supreme Court agreed to hear his case.

Texas v. Johnson, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (5–4) on June 21, 1989, that the burning of the U.S. flag is a protected form of speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

2017年3月16日 · Case Summary of Texas v. Johnson: Johnson was arrested for burning an American flag at a political rally in violation of a Texas statute which prohibited public desecration of the flag.

In Texas v. Johnson, a divided Supreme Court held that burning the flag was protected expression under the First Amendment. The case was decided twenty years after the birth of the “counterculture” movement, fifteen years after the end of the Vietnam War, and in the midst of the Cold War, although that was soon coming to an end.

In 1984, in front of the Dallas City Hall, Gregory Lee Johnson burned an American flag as a means of protest against Reagan administration policies. Johnson was tried and convicted under a Texas law outlawing flag desecration.

Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 5–4, that burning the Flag of the United States was protected speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as doing so counts as symbolic speech and political speech.

After a march through the city streets, Johnson burned an American flag while protesters chanted. No one was physically injured or threatened with injury, although several witnesses were seriously offended by the flag burning.

2009年1月1日 · Johnson was convicted under a Texas law for burning an American flag. The Supreme Court overturned the law in Texas v. Johnson for violating First Amendment freedom of expression.

Brief Fact Summary. A conviction for burning the United States flag based on a Texas law was overturned after the Supreme Court of the United States (Supreme Court) found that the Texas law was unconstitutional.

2024年11月2日 · Johnson (1989) was a landmark Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the Texas statute prohibiting flag desecration violated the First Amendment‘s protection of free speech. The unanimous decision affirmed that expressive conduct, such as flag burning, constitutes protected symbolic speech.