Excerpt from Stars and Stripes. Read the full article here.
“Attorneys for an Army combat veteran facing two federal criminal charges after he burned an American flag in view of the White House are seeking to dismiss the case with video evidence collected from police-worn body cameras at the incident.
“Jan ‘Jay’ Carey, a former Army sergeant first class, is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday for a status conference over his attorneys’ claim that he was the target of ‘vindictive prosecution’ after engaging in protest activities protected under the First Amendment. …
“Trump has ‘declared his intention to suppress lawful speech with regard to the constitutional right to flag-burning as a matter of protected expression, stating: “We took the freedom of speech away,”‘ said Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, executive director of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund and its project, the Center for Protest Law and Litigation.”