Charge Over Threats to Mitch McConnell Revived by Appeals Court

The criminal charges against a defendant who sent harassing emails to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) were revived by the Ninth Circuit Monday, which said a jury should decide whether they were true threats.

Howard Weiss, who lives in California, sent McConnell a series of profane emails through the senator’s congressional website that referred to McConnell as a turtle and a Russian asset, disparaged his wife’s ethnicity, and said the resistance should have put a bullet in his head.

Weiss was indicted under a statute that makes it illegal to use a telecommunications device anonymously “with the intent to abuse, threaten, ...