In response to the upside-down flag incident, Judge Ponsor wrote an opinion piece headlined, “How could Justice Alito have been so foolish?” His comments echoed the thinking of many Americans ...

The upside-down flag, once a signal of distress for sailors, has been used as a form of protest for several decades. Before the 2024 presidential election, the upside-down flag had also come to ...

The U.S. flag code says American flags should not be displayed upside-down except as a signal of “dire distress,” but free speech protections prevent prosecution.