The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Supreme_Court" id="mw8Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="U.S. Supreme Court">U.S. Supreme Court</a> rules in <i id="mw8g"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._Johnson" id="mw8w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Texas v. Johnson">Texas v. Johnson</a></i>, 491 U.S. 397, that American flag-burning is a form of political protest protected by the First Amendment.<sup about="#mwt60" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"}}' id="cite_ref-10" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./June_21#cite_note-10" id="mw9A" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 10;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw9Q">[10]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"><cite about="#mwt57" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFWelch2000">Welch, Michael (2000). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=s5btT1HO60kC" id="mwCHQ" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwCHU">Flag Burning: Moral Panic and the Criminalization of Protest</i></a>. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. pp.<span id="mwCHY" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>68–71. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwCHc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwCHg" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780202306513" id="mwCHk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780202306513"><bdi id="mwCHo">9780202306513</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt57" class="Z3988" id="mwCHs" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Flag+Burning%3A+Moral+Panic+and+the+Criminalization+of+Protest&amp;rft.place=New+York&amp;rft.pages=68-71&amp;rft.pub=Aldine+de+Gruyter&amp;rft.date=2000&amp;rft.isbn=9780202306513&amp;rft.aulast=Welch&amp;rft.aufirst=Michael&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Ds5btT1HO60kC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJune+21"></span></span>