Albert Richard Roy, Jr. v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• finding that a statement by a marine to the telephone operator that he is \going to get\ arriving President Johnson constitutes a threat, but suggesting that its decision could have been different if the \words were stated in a political ... context\
• threatening statement is willful if a reasonable person should foresee that the hearers would take the statement seriously
• threat has restrictive effect upon the free exercise of Presidential responsibilities regardless of whether the person making it actually intends to assault the President
• “detrimental effect upon Presidential activity and movement ... may result simply from a threat upon the President’s life”
• “A President’s death in office has worldwide repercussions and affects the security and future of the entire nation.”
• “To say that it is no defense to claim that the threat was made as a joke is an overstatement.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).