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This headline and the article are misleading. ... The amendments allow prosecution of such threats in the City of Richmond, as opposed to the jurisdiction where the threat was made, if the target of the threat is certain elected officials.
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I haven't read the article (can't) or the law in question (lazy) but the description of the amendment seems substantial to me.
It removes the question of whether the speech was a threat from one's home area and puts it smack dab in the middle of Mordor. When the jury is selected, are the jurors really the Defendant's peers? Does the jury speak in the same local colloquialisms as the Defendant? The Defendant must travel potentially hundreds of miles to deal with the case, rather than have it dealt with locally -- this is both more expensive and more difficult to do effectively, giving the state and its unlimited resources additional power.