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Threats against federal judges and prosecutors have more than doubled in recent years, with threats against federal prosecutors rising from 116 to 250 from 2003 to 2008, [50] and threats against federal judges climbing from 500 to 1,278 in that same period, [51] [52] prompting hundreds to get 24-hour protection from armed U.S. marshals.
Republicans coming out of the three-and-a-half-hour conference meeting, which grew emotional at times, said they expected a vote to take place soon but that they wanted to give Mr Jordan more time ...
A demand letter is a formalized demand by a party that another party pay money or take certain acts, often accompanied by a claim that the second party has engaged in illegal conduct, with an implicit or explicit threat that the demanding party will take some form of legal action.
Categories of speech that are given lesser or no protection by the First Amendment (and therefore may be restricted) include obscenity, fraud, child pornography, speech integral to illegal conduct, speech that incites imminent lawless action, speech that violates intellectual property law, true threats, false statements of fact, and commercial ...
These Missouri senators owe Loudermill a very public reckoning. Their refusal to say sorry must be met with swift sanctions issued by their fellow lawmakers in the state Senate. Show comments
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The true threat doctrine was established in the 1969 Supreme Court case Watts v. United States . [ 3 ] In that case, an eighteen-year-old male was convicted in a Washington, D.C. District Court for violating a statute prohibiting persons from knowingly and willfully making threats to harm or kill the President of the United States.
At the 142nd IOC session here in Paris, where a vote confirmed that Salt Lake would get the 2034 Winter Games, the bigger news was that of a last-minute amendment to the host contract.