Flag-burning laws unconstitutional, but persist

Sunday, July 31, 2016

URBANA, Ill. -- Champaign County State's Attorney Julia Rietz had just finished walking in a Fourth of July parade when her assistant told her a central Illinois man had been arrested on suspicion of burning an American flag.

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