Protect and Serve Act of 2025
Creates a new federal crime for assaulting law enforcement officers — duplicating protections that already exist in every state, but adding federal prosecution power that critics say is designed to chill protest movements.
Gun policy
Law enforcement & policing
Criminal justice & sentencing
Civil rights & discrimination
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the way quoting a news article works. Select a passage above and the same panel
opens: the passage goes to the official you choose, with this document's own
address as its source and its own type. #}