Wherever federal jurisidiction can apply, Congress should make it a federal felony for protesters to block traffic.
, commuters on the Golden Gate Bridge were trapped in their cars for five hours, while across the bay in Oakland traffic in both directions on I-880 was blocked for six.
Ensuring the safe use of roads and bridges is absolutely a substantial government interest. Which is why at every illegal protest mentioned above, dozens of protesters were arrested. Blocking traffic is already a crime in most local jurisdictions. State and local governments are mostly free to maintain law and order as they see fit. But that changes when federal money is used to build and maintain highways, or involves critical interstate transportation infrastructure such as airports and bridges. Congress has every right to identify when localities are failing to maintain safe and free passage through federally funded infrastructure and then step in and restore order.
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