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Chico State University Employee Pleads Guilty of Hate Crime in Potential Violent Speech Case

JonathanTurley

Indeed, professors have been making analogous statements for years without investigation, let alone criminal charges. Officials then moved under “Red Flag” laws to seize four rifles and three handguns. That would seem to convert the hate crime law into a hate speech law. In Brandenburg v.

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

JonathanTurley

The only evidence of Weiss’s intent that the Court is aware of comes from Weiss’s interview with law enforcement, in which he admitted to having an intent to harass the Senator, rather than to threaten him. Even law professors are now engaging in such reckless rhetoric. Coalition of Life Activists (9th Cir.