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Texas v. Johnson case tested the court's commitment to protecting symbolic speech of a highly unpopular nature by asking it to evaluate a man's conviction under state law for burning an american flag.
- Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989)[2] was a significant ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States, in which the Court determined on a 5-4 vote that burning the American flag qualifies as protected political and symbolic speech under the First Amendment. Gregory Lee Johnson, a protester, was found guilty in the case of burning an American flag outside the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas. He was fined $2,000 and given a one-year jail sentence in line with Texas law. Johnson's burning of the flag was protected by the First Amendment, according to Justice William Brennan, who wrote for the majority of five judges, and as a result, neither the state nor anyone else could retaliate against Johnson or censor him.
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