House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Protecting Our Supreme Court Justices Act of 2025
Official title: To amend section 1507 of title 18, United States Code, to establish appropriate penalties for obstruction of justice by picketing or parading in or near court buildings or residences of judges, jurors, witnesses, or other court officers.
Sponsor: Rep. David Kustoff R-TNWhere it went
- IntroducedApr 8, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 8, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2724.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. KUSTOFF, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 63, April 8, 2025, Page H1508):Under Article I, Section 8, the Necessary and Proper Clasue. Congress shall have the power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing powers and all Powers vested by this Constitution in the Governmen of the United States, or in any Department of Officer thereof.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record April 8, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 315 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2724, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/2724
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 8, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of April 8, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
2 cosponsors — 2 Republicans
0 of 2 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
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- H.R. 3108 (119th) RPM Access Act
- H.R. 5242 (119th) To repeal the Second Chance Amendment Act of 2022 and the Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act of 2016.
Related bills
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.