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“True Threats”: Ninth Circuit Rules That Threats Against Mitch McConnell May Be Prosecuted

JonathanTurley

Judge Breyer also noted that the government’s indictment seemed to focus on an intent to harass rather than actually threaten Sen. McConnell: Here, though the government asserted at the motion hearing that Weiss’s conduct meets the subjective test for a true threat, it provided no support for that assertion.