Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal ProcedureRelease 119-73
§1507 Picketing or parading
Title 18 › Part PART I— - CRIMES › Chapter CHAPTER 73— - OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE › § 1507
Summary
Makes it illegal to picket, parade, use a sound truck, or hold any demonstration in or near a U.S. courthouse or in or near a building or home used by a judge, juror, witness, or court officer when the goal is to interfere with the administration of justice or to influence those people. A person who does this may be fined under federal law, jailed for not more than one year, or both. Courts still keep their power to punish contempt.
Full Legal Text
Title 18, §1507
Crimes and Criminal Procedure — Source: USLM XML via OLRC
Whoever, with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge, juror, witness, or court officer, in the discharge of his duty, pickets or parades in or near a building housing a court of the United States, or in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge, juror, witness, or court officer, or with such intent uses any sound-truck or similar device or resorts to any other demonstration in or near any such building or residence, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. Nothing in this section shall interfere with or prevent the exercise by any court of the United States of its power to punish for contempt.
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Amendments
1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $5,000” in first par.
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Citation
18 U.S.C. § 1507
Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73