HAPPY FLAG DAY! Today in 1943, the Supreme Court decided West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, which included this famous passage:

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.

Words to remember, especially in these times.