Legal Question in Constitutional Law in District of Columbia
freedom of speech
does the freedom of speech amendment protect an american citizen from threatening someone or calling them an inferior race thats from another country
Asked on 12/19/06, 10:00 am
1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Hendrickson
Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson
Re: freedom of speech
Most jurisdictions within the United States have laws which make it a crime to threaten another person with death or bodily injury.
Regarding accusing another person as belonging to an "inferior race", there is generally no such prohibition of which I am aware. (Such epithets or
attempted slanderings merely bespeak the ignorance of the one who utters them.)
Answered on 12/20/06, 12:05 pm
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