Supreme Court to Decide if Online Death Threats Count as Free Speech
The Supreme Court will decide whether the government can imprison a man for online death threats.
In agreeing to hear the case of Elonis v. United States, the Supreme Court will hear the case of Anthony Elonis, who made a series of Facebook posts, sometimes accompanied by disturbing images, in which he either violently threatened his ex-wife, a coworker, and an FBI agent, or simply expressed his emotions.