The US Supreme Court on Monday began to wrestle with violent rap lyrics, internet trolling, and the notion that posting bomb and homicide threats is a form of therapy in which a now-jailed ranter could vent his frustration and thereby not really intend to kill anybody.
The ranter in question is Anthony Elonis, a Pennsylvania man who had adopted the rap persona Tone Dougie.
In 2010, his wife left him and took their two kids with her. He responded by writing death threats - or rap lyrics, as his defense contends - on Facebook.
