S. 399 seeks to amend section 1507 of title 18 of the United States Code to change the penalty for obstructing justice by picketing or parading near court buildings or the homes of judges, jurors, witnesses, or other court officers. Currently, the penalty is imprisonment for...
Simple Explanation
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!”