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He Burned a Flag and Won a Right. With Trump’s Order, He Worries That’s at Risk.

The Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that burning an American flag is speech protected by the First Amendment. President Trump says it should be punished.

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Gregory Johnson displayed a flag he has used in protests, in Venice, Calif., in 2021. Mr. Johnson won a landmark Supreme Court case in 1989 protecting political expression that is now being challenged by President Trump.

An Online Group Claims It’s Behind Campus Swatting Wave

Members of the group offered on Telegram to draw armed officers to schools, malls and airports, though their claims are unverified. Such false emergency calls have disrupted campus life in recent days.

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An online group has said that it was behind a number of recent swatting episodes that have drawn law enforcement officers to American college campuses, including Villanova University on Aug. 21.

Judge Blocks Pillar of Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign

Judge Jia M. Cobb rejected what she called “a truly startling argument” from the government that it could use a fast-track procedure to remove people arrested far from the southern border.

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The Trump administration has sought to expand the process known as expedited removal, which typically avoids court proceedings.

Grand Juries in D.C. Reject Prosecutors’ Efforts to Level Harsh Charges Against Residents

The extraordinary pushback in at least three separate cases comes as President Trump has flooded the streets with National Guard troops and federal agents.

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Crime has fallen in Washington since federal agents started policing Washington’s streets in large numbers, but the surge has chafed against some residents who have found the presence of troops and agents to be a cause of fear, not of security.

U.K. Court Overturns Ruling on Hotel at Center of Asylum Seeker Debate

The decision was a temporary reprieve for the government but will intensify a political battle over how Britain should house tens of thousands of asylum seekers.

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Outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, southeastern England, this month. The hotel became the center of protests after an asylum seeker who was being housed there was charged with sexual assault.

Appeals Court Declines to Block Trump From Freezing Foreign Aid

The court voted not to revisit a fight over billions in frozen funds, but simultaneously revised an earlier order to give nonprofits that sued a narrow path forward in the case.

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The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit seemed to render moot, for now, an emergency request the Trump administration had made with the Supreme Court.
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