Word: viktora
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Three years ago, the Supreme Court held in a highly controversial 5-to-4 decision that burning an American flag is protected free speech under the First Amendment. Last week the court found that cross burning is also protected by the First Amendment. A Minnesota teenager, Robert A. Viktora, burned a cross on the front lawn of a black family in St. Paul and was charged under a city ordinance that banned any action "which one knows . . . arouses anger, alarm or resentment in others on the basis of race, color, creed, religion or gender." Scalia called the ordinance unconstitutional...