He's not getting charged with anything too bad actually.
a. 18 U.S.C. §§ 231(a)(3) & 2, which makes it a crime to commit or attempt to
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commit, any act to obstruct, impede, or interfere with any fireman or law
enforcement officer lawfully engaged in the lawful performance of his official duties
incident to and during the commission of a civil disorder which in any way or degree
obstructs, delays, or adversely affects the performance of any federally protected
function;
b. 18 U.S.C. § 1752(a), which makes it a crime to (1) knowingly enter or remain
in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority to do; (2) knowingly,
and with intent to impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business or
official functions, engage in disorderly or disruptive conduct in, or within such
proximity to, any restricted building or grounds when, or so that, such conduct, in
fact, impedes or disrupts the orderly conduct of Government business or official
functions; (3) knowingly, and with the intent to impede or disrupt the orderly
conduct of Government business or official functions, obstruct or impede ingress or
egress to or from any restricted building or grounds; or (4) knowingly engage in any
act of physical violence against any person or property in any restricted building or
grounds; or attempts or conspires to do so. For purposes of Section 1752 of Title 18,
a restricted building includes a posted, cordoned off, or otherwise restricted area of
a building or grounds where the President or other person protected by the Secret
Service is or will be temporarily visiting; or any building or grounds so restricted in
conjunction with an event designated as a special event of national significance; and
c. 40 U.S.C. § 5104(e)(2)(D), which makes it a crime for an individual or group
of individuals to willfully and knowingly (A) enter or remain on the floor of either
House of Congress or in any cloakroom or lobby adjacent to that floor, in the
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Rayburn Room of the House of Representatives, or in the Marble Room of the
Senate, unless authorized to do so pursuant to rules adopted, or an authorization
given, by that House; (B) enter or remain in the gallery of either House of Congress
in violation of rules governing admission to the gallery adopted by that House or
pursuant to an authorization given by that House; (C) with the intent to disrupt the
orderly conduct of official business, enter or remain in a room in any of the Capitol
Buildings set aside or designated for the use of— (i) either House of Congress or a
Member, committee, officer, or employee of Congress, or either House of Congress;
or (ii) the Library of Congress; (D) utter loud, threatening, or abusive language, or
engage in disorderly or disruptive conduct, at any place in the Grounds or in any of
the Capitol Buildings with the intent to impede, disrupt, or disturb the orderly
conduct of a session of Congress or either House of Congress, or the orderly conduct
in that building of a hearing before, or any deliberations of, a committee of Congress
or either House of Congress; (E) obstruct, or impede passage through or within, the
Grounds or any of the Capitol Buildings; (F) engage in an act of physical violence
in the Grounds or any of the Capitol Buildings; or (G) parade, demonstrate, or picket
in any of the Capitol Buildings; and