Commentary
Inside the First Amendment
By Gene Policinski
First Amendment Center vice president/executive director
Just in time for Flag Day, a California public school principal appears to have managed, in one swoop and in the name of respecting the Stars and Stripes, to show a lack of respect for the First Amendment’s protections for both free speech and a free press.
By a presidential proclamation in 1949, the nation officially recognized June 14 as Flag…
