Supreme Court Decision Sets a Higher Bar For Punishing Speech As a “True Threat”

Earlier in the week, the US Supreme Court announced its decision in the Counterman vs. Colorado First Amendment case, which observers say resulted in setting a higher bar for punishing speech as “a true threat.”

If this judgment is anything to go by, going forward it will be very difficult to sentence people to multiple years in prison based on their social media posts – unless “true threat” from those posts is proved according to a substantially higher criteria that was the case up until this point.