Justices cross ideological lines in case involving Facebook stalker

Boundaries of First Amendment at issue in this and other legal disputes

Photo by Timothy Hales Bennett, licensed by Unsplash.

The Colorado case involving a man who made threatening statements to a woman via Facebook was decided today by the U.S. Supreme Court on a 7-2 vote that crossed ideological lines, but the courts’ written opinions included more fracturing over the First Amendment than the simple numbers might indicate.

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