Great day to be a lefty.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri’s flag desecration law is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced, a federal judge has ruled.

U.S. District Judge Carol Jackson issued a permanent injunction Tuesday in the case of Frank Snider, a Cape Girardeau man arrested in 2009 for cutting up an American flag and then throwing it into the street.

Jackson’s ruling orders the state, its political subdivisions and its officials from “enforcing or threatening to enforce” the law.

American Civil Liberties Union attorney Tony Rothert, who represented Snider, said Missouri is among at least 20 states with laws prohibiting flag desecration.

“It’s a long-delayed victory in Missouri,” Rothert said. “The Supreme Court has been pretty clear that these statutes are unconstitutional.

The Missouri Attorney General’s Office was still reviewing the decision, spokeswoman Nanci Gonder said, and she declined further comment.

Snider was standing in his front yard in October 2009 when he tried to set fire to an American flag. Unable to do so, he used a knife to shred it and then threw it on the ground.

Court documents showed a neighbor called police and told the dispatcher, “He’s cut the United States flag up with a knife, throw’d it out in the street for the cars to run over. Now, I am a United State citizen, and I don’t like it.”