Ryan favors a constitutional amendment to ban flag-burning.
She noted that he was in the majority in a 1989 decision that struck down a Texas law banning flag-burning.
Would this be happening if they had banned flag-burning?
He is a teetotaling Mormon, a former Capitol Hill police officer who opposes abortion and was a cosponsor of the constitutional amendment banning flag-burning.
The ultrapatriotic want an amendment to ban flag-burning (hell, why not just mandate flag-waving?)
The latter (Davis) voted for the Iraq War and "also voted to ban flag-burning."
He has proposed amending the Constitution to ban flag-burning, to outlaw abortion and to impose term limits.
He is one of the few Republicans to oppose amending the Constitution to ban flag-burning.
Justice Fortas agreed with Chief Justice Warren's dissent, but added a brief additional explanation of why he thought that it would be constitutional to ban flag-burning.