The Supreme Court's decisions in two flag-burning cases have
A) held that flag burning is a punishable desecration of a sacred national symbol.
B) ?been at odds with each other, leaving uncertainty about this symbolically important area of the law.
C) ?held that flag burning is a legally protected political expression.
D) ?both sent the cases back to lower courts for rehearing, where the litigants settled, so there is no final decision to point to.
E) ?been decided on narrow procedural grounds, with no decision on the main legal issue.
C
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