BALDWIN: Just about the bottom of the hour. You're watching CNN here. And you're looking at pictures, and let me just tell you, these are pictures not just as we have been talking to our correspondent in New York. This is across the country, people of many different races, ethnicities, ages all coming out, they're walking out of schools and of their workplaces, basically a show of solidarity against the grand jury decision one week ago today in Ferguson, Missouri. And just as I'm telling you this and as we keep our eyes on these pictures here, I can tell you that President Obama today is holding a series of meetings. He's meeting with members of his Cabinet, meeting with different community civil rights leaders, multigenerational to talk about potential changes, because, in talking to our correspondents here and covering these folks who are marching, they say that they are sick and tired of the police brutality as witnessed by some of the pictures of those protests back in August in Ferguson. So we will wait to hear from the president and also our attorney general, Eric Holder, speaking later this evening, holding a forum of sorts as well at Dr. King's Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Let's move on. It is a case of the First Amendment colliding with the Internet. The U.S. Supreme Court today is being asked for the first time to examine the limits of free speech on social media. Specifically, how does the law address violent language and threats posted on social media? So, our go-to guy on all things SCOTUS, Mr. Jeffrey Toobin, our senior legal analyst. So, let's begin with the story. So, the guy who posted all of these angry, angry ramblings on Facebook, his name is Anthony Elonis, through a divorce, posting all this stuff about his ex-wife. The ex- wife's side saying incredibly threatening. Elonis' side, his attorney, saying this is just like, say, rap lyrics from Eminem threatening to kill his mother or ex-wife, didn't actually mean to carry them out.
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