What the Flag-Burning Amendment is Really About

I ain't one of them fancy IJ lawyers, but I'm pretty sure the Constitution was meant to limit Congressional power.

Setting up a cliffhanger vote on the Senate floor later this month, the Judiciary Committee approved a proposed constitutional amendment Thursday that would authorize Congress to ban flag desecration...

...Before approving the resolution, the committee rejected by voice vote an amendment by Joseph R. Biden Jr., D-Del., that would have prohibited burning, mutilating or trampling U.S. flags with an exception for disposing worn or soiled flags. Biden said he believed the resolution as written is too vague.

Supporters, including Hatch and Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., said the language is intentionally vague to leave the task of writing more precise language to a future Congress.

"What's necessary here is to grant the broadest possible authority to Congress to
legislate," Kyl said.

And there you have it.

[Via CQ]