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Prosecution for Threatening to Cut President's Face Off and Feed It to Stray Dogs Can Go to Jury

Eugene Volokh | 10.21.2026 4:00 PM

U.S. v. Santiago, decided Monday by Judge Chad Meredith (E.D. Ky.), involves this Instagram post:

Santiago is being prosecuted for making threatening interstate communications, in two counts, "one regarding the threat to the President, and one regarding the threat to law enforcement officers." The court allowed the prosecution to go forward:

[T]he question of........

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