"A 'true threat' standard that considers the speaker's intent is necessary to avoid criminalizing inevitable misunderstandings," he wrote in his brief.

Colorado, a case about whether a constitutionally unprotected “true threat” requires that the speaker have a subjective intent to threaten. “True threats” is one of the few categories of speech where ...

"It is clearly the case that the former leadership of Venezuela — the Maduro regime — is a true threat the United States of America," Pompeo told the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee during a ...