Famed civil rights attorney Alan Dershowitz said the greatest danger in President-elect Donald Trump's tweets opposing flag-burning is "anything Donald Trump doesn't like, he'd like to ban."
"What worries me more about Donald Trump is not the flag-burning," Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor emeritus, told Don Lemon on CNN on Tuesday. "Most elected politicians would vote to ban flag-burning, so that's a closed question."
In 1989, the United States Supreme Court ruled 5-4 flag-burning was protected as free speech.
"What I'm worried about is anything Donald Trump doesn't like, he'd like to ban," Dershowitz said. "He'd like to ban criticism of him.
"He's like to ban the large media.
"He thinks that as president he's going to get his way, and it's going to be free speech for me but not for thee — and it's going to come home to hurt him if that ever happened.
"If he ever eliminated the laws of libel, he's protected by the First Amendment," Dershowitz said.
Trump tweeted Tuesday flag-burners should either be stripped of their U.S. citizenship or sentenced to a year in jail.
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