And saying "I want you dead" is a criminal threat.
No state or city charges will be filed, of course. And Federal charges that could be filed?
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:52%20section:10307%20edition:prelim)
Hahahaha. Sure.
And saying "I want you dead" is a criminal threat.
No state or city charges will be filed, of course. And Federal charges that could be filed?
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:52%20section:10307%20edition:prelim)
Hahahaha. Sure.
Whoever intimidates, threatens, coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any other person for the purpose of interfering with the right of such other person to vote or to vote as he may choose, or of causing such other person to vote for, or not to vote for, any candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, at any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing such candidate, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
There are laws protecting candidates as well.
So when Roger Stone says “prepare to die” wr have to apply the same legal reasoning and not say that it was a joke, as someone from the Trump team did this week.