Protesters Beware...if you try to prevent a member of Congress from doing their duty, and attack them ,you can go to jail for 5 to 10 years.
This came to my attention after protesters surrounded Mitch McConnell's home within minutes of his statement that he would push the vote for a replacement for the supreme court's open seat.
Fortunately, neither Mitch McConnell nor his family were at home when their house was surrounded and protesters were dispersed by the police.
Penalties are as follows:
Assaults
The federal assault statutes include:
18 U.S.C. 351(e) (assaulting a Member of Congress, certain senior executive officials, Justices of
the Supreme Court, a Presidential or Vice Presidential candidate, or nominee to the Supreme
Court)
Penalties: committed with a dangerous weapon or if personal injury results—imprisonment
for not more than 10 years
otherwise—imprisonment for not more than 1 year
18 U.S.C. 1751(e) (assaulting the President, Vice-President, an official serving as President, or
certain senior executive officials)
Penalties: committed with a dangerous weapon or if personal injury results—imprisonment
for not more than 10 years
otherwise—imprisonment for not more than 1 year
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41574.pdf
"Why did Congress find it necessary or desirable to make this a federal crime? Probably not because it was concerned that state prosecutors and courts would not take this crime seriously or would not hand down appropriate punishments. Most likely, Congress wanted to express a national consensus that an attack on an elected federal representative or similar official is, in effect, an assault on the government and on the nation itself. And it may have desired, in national times of sorrow and anger precisely like the one we are in now, to allow the nation as a whole to take action to ensure justice. The federal courts are such a vehicle for national action."
https://www.ifrahlaw.com/crime-in-the-suites/why-is-an-assault-on-congress-member-a-federal-crime/
Federal crimes are NOT like state crimes. It is a much more serious business.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-e2Ot7M2io]
Fortunately, neither Mitch McConnell nor his family were at home when their house was surrounded and protesters were dispersed by the police.
Penalties are as follows:
Assaults
The federal assault statutes include:
18 U.S.C. 351(e) (assaulting a Member of Congress, certain senior executive officials, Justices of
the Supreme Court, a Presidential or Vice Presidential candidate, or nominee to the Supreme
Court)
Penalties: committed with a dangerous weapon or if personal injury results—imprisonment
for not more than 10 years
otherwise—imprisonment for not more than 1 year
18 U.S.C. 1751(e) (assaulting the President, Vice-President, an official serving as President, or
certain senior executive officials)
Penalties: committed with a dangerous weapon or if personal injury results—imprisonment
for not more than 10 years
otherwise—imprisonment for not more than 1 year
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41574.pdf
"Why did Congress find it necessary or desirable to make this a federal crime? Probably not because it was concerned that state prosecutors and courts would not take this crime seriously or would not hand down appropriate punishments. Most likely, Congress wanted to express a national consensus that an attack on an elected federal representative or similar official is, in effect, an assault on the government and on the nation itself. And it may have desired, in national times of sorrow and anger precisely like the one we are in now, to allow the nation as a whole to take action to ensure justice. The federal courts are such a vehicle for national action."
https://www.ifrahlaw.com/crime-in-the-suites/why-is-an-assault-on-congress-member-a-federal-crime/
Federal crimes are NOT like state crimes. It is a much more serious business.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-e2Ot7M2io]
