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Never thought I’d be on the opposite side of the Supreme Court when it came to offensive rap lyrics.
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So now I guess we can pretty much threaten anyone with anything and claim it’s therapy?
Is that really what the opinion said? Because there’s a huge body of law that says you don’t have have knowledge of wrongdoing to be convicted of a crime. If I point a gun at someone and ask them for money, I’m going to be convicted (of a bunch of things) even if I think I’m just clowning around, precisely because a reasonable person would thinking that doing that could be recognized as a real threat.
Threats have never been protected as free speech. Once again, the court has a majority of idiots.