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Watts Vs. United States

Court: US Supreme Court

..... want to get in my sights is l b j held to be crude political hyperbole which in light of its context and conditional nature did not constitute a knowing and ..... government to prove a true threat we do not believe that the kind of political hyperbole indulged in by petitioner fits within that statutory term for we must interpret the language .....