Death threats are surging against public figures and officials. First Amendment advocates struggle to draw the line between true threats and protected speech. Conflicting court rulings mean few ...

SCOTUS ruling in Facebook threats case "neither the most speech-protective nor the most sensitive to the dangers of true threats." For statements to be considered true threats, unprotected by the ...

Adding to the conflicted legal views over true threats was the 2019 refusal by the justices to consider an appeal by Jamal Knox, a Pittsburgh rap music artist convicted over lyrics in a song ...

"A 'true threat' standard that considers the speaker's intent is necessary to avoid criminalizing inevitable misunderstandings," he wrote in his brief.

The internet is full of threats—violent, personal, severe threats, the recipients of which are left to assess the threats’ seriousness, to figure out how to protect themselves. Perhaps the ...

Arrests for threatening election workers have been rare, even in cases of true threats. Excerpt of a Dec. 2020 voicemail for the office of Jim Condos, Vermont’s secretary of state: ...

But he ignores the elephant in the room when he writes, “Please, tell me more about these threats to democracy.” How about a president who refuses to concede a fair election? If that isn’t a ...

Colorado courts found that Counterman’s messages were true threats. He was convicted of stalking and sentenced to 4½ years in prison. But he appealed, arguing that his messages were protected ...

True threats instead "encompass those statements where the speaker means to communicate a serious expression of an intent to commit an act of unlawful violence to a particular individual or ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday revisits a question the court has never answered: When is a threat a "true threat?" What does the prosecution have to prove? Does it have to show that the defendant ...