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A patchwork of state laws — not a single federal ban — governs : a small number of states have statutes that explicitly forbid carrying firearms at parades, demonstrations, or marching with arms, whil...
Twenty‑three states and the District of Columbia maintain statutes that limit wearing masks in public, but those laws vary sharply in scope: some are narrow, criminalizing masking conducted with inten...
Convictions for conduct that meets the federal definition of "domestic terrorism" are punished not by a single federal "domestic terrorism" crime but by underlying criminal statutes that carry penalti...
Lawful protest funding — grants, stipends, reimbursements — is protected when it supports peaceful assembly, organizing, legal support, or advocacy within First Amendment bounds, whereas payments that...
The available reporting reviewed here does not produce documented, verifiable cases in which paid protesters clearly changed local government decisions; instead the literature distinguishes between th...
The user seeks the exact statutory texts for the specific state statutes that correspond to a set of 23 states ICNL lists; the available reporting shows ICNL maintains a comprehensive page of state ra...
Aiding protesters — whether by supplying legal observers, medical supplies, masks, transportation, or funding — is protected in principle by First Amendment values that secure the right to speak, asse...
or political rallies sits at the intersection of and an evolving tangle of state and federal restrictions: the government may impose narrow, content‑neutral limits on time, place and manner, while rec...
Attacks on political activists can trigger a range of legal responses, from criminal prosecution for violence to administrative fines or short detentions for protesters — but enforcement is uneven and...
Laws and regulations touching payment for protest activity fall into at least two distinct categories in the available reporting: rules about paying people to participate in public demonstrations—an i...
Penalties for publicly inciting others to cause bodily harm depend heavily on which statute is charged: many U.S. riot‑related statutes treat “inciting to riot” as a misdemeanor with jail time and fin...