H.R. 2724 wants to make the punishment much stricter for people who try to bother or scare judges or others working with the court by protesting near them, changing the jail time from up to one year to up to five years.

The bill wants to make it a bigger punishment if someone gets in the way of court business by being noisy or causing trouble near a courthouse or where a judge or juror lives, changing the punishment from up to one year in jail to five years. It’s like saying, “Don’t be naughty near court places, or you could be in bigger trouble!”