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- Senator Tommy Tuberville, along with four Republican colleagues, proposed legislation aimed at making it a federal offense to block public roads during protests.
- The legislation was introduced following widespread protests against recent aggressive ICE operations targeting migrants in the Los Angeles area.
- The bill aims to make it illegal to intentionally obstruct commerce by blocking public roads, with penalties of fines or up to five years in prison.
- Senator Tillis described the bill as a response to 'radical tactics of anti-ICE protesters,' while critics argue it threatens freedom of speech and labels dissenters as domestic terrorists.
- If enacted, the act would hold protestors accountable under federal law but raises concerns over balancing public safety and civil rights amid ongoing political tensions.
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Tillis reintroduces bill that would make blocking traffic a federal crime
In light of the recent Los Angeles riots, US Sen. Thom Tillis, R-NC, led in reintroducing a bill that would make it a federal crime to purposely obstruct, delay, or affect commerce by blocking a public road or highway. Fellow Republican senators Ted Budd, NC, Marsha Blackburn, TN, Tommy Tuberville, AL, and Bill Cassidy, LA, co-sponsored the bill. The Safe and Open Streets Act was first introduced in 2023 after a group of protesters blocked the…
Tuberville calls protestors "domestic terrorists," joins bill criminalizing blocking roads
Earlier this month, mass protests broke out in California and the greater Los Angeles area in response to the Trump administration’s increasingly aggressive efforts to detain migrants through Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Despite evidence that the vast majority of protestors in LA used their First Amendment rights peacefully and that law enforcement, not protestors, were the ones instigating violence during the demonstrations, many …
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