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TIL the US Supreme Court has seen and ruled on the Whitest Kids U' Know's "I Want to Kill the President of the United States" sketch. Someone copy-pasted the script in a facebook post to threaten his ex-wife - he was eventually acquitted in an 8-1 decision.

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