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There are to the First Amendment, and a “true threat” is one of them.

But defining a true threat isn’t easy. Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court first examined true threats in the 1969 case Watts v. United States, it’s been a messy doctrine. The court didn’t provide a definition of a true threat until many years after Watts, and even then questions still remained.

On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we discuss the true threats doctrine with First Amendment scholar and FIRELegal Fellow David L. Hudson Jr. He is the author of an ABA Journal article about true threats titled

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