Johnson. The case arose when Gregory Lee Johnson was arrested for burning an American flag at a political demonstration during the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas. Stated in a blog posted in 2016 by Scott Bomboy “Flag burning, as we’ve discussed in detail on this blog and at the National Constitution, is a legal debate that goes back decades, and in the minds of the Supreme Court, has been settled since 1990.” Since flag burning is a legal act, it must be allowed for everyone to burn a flag even if people disagree with flag burning. For example: In 2006 Congress tried to pass a joint resolution to propose an amendment to the Constitution to prohibit flag desecration, which failed by just one vote in the Senate. The First Amendment helped greatly in this case because it is about freedom of speech and flag burning is a symbolic