Criminalizing Peaceful Protest

Criminalizing peaceful protests to become illegal is a major issue that has not become fully acknowledge by people. Ten states that have proposed this law are: Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, North Dakota, Virginia, and Washington.
Although Washington is not the only democratic state of these ten states, it is drawn more attention to it as to why it is considering proposing a law. With a new Republican president in office and majority of both, the House of Representatives and the Senate Republican, being Republican it is evident that something like this would occur. There have been many protests about Donald Trump's presidency and where he plans to make this country into.This bills will oppose and threat our first constitutional right, “ Freedom of Speech”. Washington State’s Republican Senator, Doug Ericksen, proposed to criminalize peaceful protest.
He announced that protests behaves as “economic terrorism” and should be a violation. Ericksen is in agreement to aspire to make some protests a crime because of economic damage and disruptiveness it brings to society. However, situations like these would not be peaceful protest anymore but rioting. Peaceful protest and rioting is a topic that should be considered for those, such as Ericksen, who believe that peaceful protests consists of some type of