"The idea that the government could use citizenship as a punishment for political speech is not simply unconstitutional, but fundamentally un-American."
Rowland, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, responding to a November 2016 tweet by President-elect Donald J. Trump that anyone who burns a flag should be jailed or even stripped of their U.S. citizenship.
Rowland, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, responding to a November 2016 tweet by President-elect Donald J. Trump that anyone who burns a flag should be jailed or even stripped of their U.S. citizenship.