Kira Lerner Political Reporter at ThinkProgress. Contact me: [email protected]yesterday · 5 min read Follow Republicans push anti-protest laws Bills targeting nonviolent protests are multiplying across the country. As people critical of President Trump’s Muslim ban flocked to airports this weekend to show their support for immigrants and refugees, one major airport decided to crack down on protesters. Demonstrators holds banners and signs as they protest during a march in downtown Washington in opposition of President-elect Donald Trump, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2017. CREDIT: AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana Republicans push anti-protest laws https://thinkprogress.org/anti-protest-legislation-... 1 of 7 02/01/2017 07:17 PM
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Kira LernerPolitical Reporter at ThinkProgress. Contact me: [email protected] · 5 min read
As people critical of President Trump’s Muslim ban flocked to airports
this weekend to show their support for immigrants and refugees, one
major airport decided to crack down on protesters.
Demonstrators holds banners and signs as they protest during a march in downtown Washington in opposition of President-elect Donald Trump, Sunday,Jan. 15, 2017. CREDIT: AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana
Taking a different tactic, four other states are considering anti-protest
laws that would target demonstrators who protest on the streets,
according to The Intercept. The bills have all been introduced in the
last few months as responses to high-profile protests by Black Lives
Matter activists and opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline that shut
down highways.
The Intercept summarized the bills that Republican lawmakers have
proposed in North Dakota, Minnesota, Washington, and Iowa:
In North Dakota, for instance, Republicans introduced a bill last week
that would allow motorists to run over and kill any protester obstructing
a highway as long as a driver does so accidentally. In Minnesota, a bill
introduced by Republicans last week seeks to dramatically stiffen fines for
freeway protests and would allow prosecutors to seek a full year of jail
time for protesters blocking a highway. Republicans in Washington state
have proposed a plan to reclassify as a felony civil disobedience protests
that are deemed “economic terrorism” … And in Iowa a Republican
lawmaker has pledged to introduce legislation to crack down on highway
protests.
Though Democrats in state legislatures may be able to block at least
Law enforcement form a line across Interstate 94 on Saturday, July 9, 2016, in St. Paul, Minn., in response toprotesters who blocked the highway in response to the death of Philando Castile. CREDIT: AP Photo/Joe