Thomas breaks with court on decision not to hear case of Kansas man's anti-cop threat

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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday rebuked the Kansas Supreme Court for allegedly taking the high court's precedent too far in a ruling that let a man off the hook for telling a police officer's son that his dad would end up 'in a ditch.'

Thomas did so while dissenting from the Supreme Court's decision not to hear an appeal of that case and one other about a man who told his mother that he was "going to f------ kill [her] a--" after the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that both cases involved speech that was protected under the First Amendment.

Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, appointed by President George H. W. Bush, sits with fellow Supreme Court justices for a group portrait at the Supreme Court Building in Washington, Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. There, "Boettger told another employee that 'these people ... might find themselves dead in a ditch somewhere,'" before leaving and returning again to confront the officer's son.

Boettger was convicted on one count of "reckless criminal threat" despite denying that he wanted to threaten the officer's son or the officer. The Kansas Supreme Court later overturned the decision, saying that the law's provision against threats made "in reckless disregard" was overbroad and did not rise to the "true threat" level often used as the standard in free speech cases.

Thomas also said that 16 states and Washinton, D.C. are currently facing challenges to laws like Kansas' and the court should nip this issue in the bud before there are conflicting interpretations of the First Amendment all over the country.

 

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