Republican state senator wants to make it a felony for protesters to engage in economic terrorism"
As protests against President-elect Donald Trump sweep through Seattle and other major cities, a Republican state senator wants to criminalize demonstrations that cause what he labels “economic terrorism.”
State Sen. Doug Ericksen, R-Ferndale, says he’s written a bill for the coming legislative session that would allow felony prosecution of protesters who purposely disrupt economic activity, for example by blocking traffic or sitting on railroad tracks.
The proposal is unlikely to pass in a divided Legislature and drew swift criticism from a representative of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), who called it inflammatory and unnecessary.
Ericksen was Trump’s deputy campaign director in Washington but said in an interview Wednesday his proposal has been in the works for months and was not spurred by anti-Trump protests — though it could apply to some of those, too.
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he'll be in favor of charging people protesting in front of abortion clinics with economic terrorism. 
