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Elonis Vs United States

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In many ways the Supreme Court acts as both a moral and legal mediator for the nation. Supreme Court decisions have the potential to have a tremendous impact on the lives of Americans. Such as the Glossip v. Gross case, Obergefell v. Hodges case and lastly Elonis v. United States case. However, some of these decisions have transformed American society and influenced people’s lives today. The United States Supreme Court heard the Elonis v. United States case on December 1, 2014. Elonis was currently dealing with a divorce and made various open Facebook post that appeared to be threating. These post later prompt Elonis' indictment on five counts of threats to park workers, nearby law enforcement, his wife, an FBI agent and a kindergarten class, …show more content…

United States they debated whether threatening someone else over interstate lines requires evidence or whether it is enough just to show that a “reasonable person” would find the statement as threatening. In this argument it is explained that there were implied dangers within the violent rap verses composed by Anthony Douglas Elonis and presented on Facebook under a pseudonym.
The ACLU recorded an amicus brief supporting the petitioner Elonis. The court decided in the case of Elonis v. United States that the prosecutors did not do enough to prove Anthony Elonis’s intent when he published threatening lyrics on Facebook directed at his wife. However, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. who delivered the opinion for the 7-2 majority addressed the public about whether prosecution needed to show that Elonis intended the posts to be threats, and therefore there was a subjective intent to threaten. Justice Samuel Alito also agreed with the statement in his address to the …show more content…

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