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The existence of federal statutes regulating the payment of private citizens to participate in protests in the United States
Federal courts and prosecutors treat 18 U.S.C. § 111 as a flexible tool to protect federal officers’ ability to perform official duties, applying it to a wide range of conduct from physical blows to o...
Hiring people to attend protests or demonstrations is a legally gray but generally lawful practice in the United States: the First Amendment protects expressive activity and courts treat peaceful paid...
False: no single law has been passed that broadly bars anyone born abroad from holding “a government office job” in the United States; the constitutional “natural-born citizen” requirement applies onl...
have most commonly relied on the assault-and-impeding statute, 18 U.S.C. §111, to charge protesters who have physically confronted or interfered with federal agents; more sweeping charges—like rebelli...
have a suite of remedies: immediate procedural steps to secure release, and claims (including Federal Tort Claims Act filings), and for constitutional violations under statutes like 42 U.S.C. §1983 or...
Courts and statutes have repeatedly framed protest regulation around the First Amendment’s time, place, and manner doctrine and municipal permitting systems rather than expressly prohibiting payment f...