Title: A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the constitutional rights of Americans to peaceably assemble, exercise freedom of speech, and petition the Government for redress of grievances must be respected; that violence and looting are unlawful, unacceptable, and contrary to the purpose of peaceful protests; and that Congress condemns the President of the United States for ordering Federal officers to use gas and rubber bullets against the Americans who were peaceably protesting in Lafayette Square in Washington, DC on the night of June 1, 2020, thereby violating the constitutional rights of those peaceful protestors.
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

Summary:
This concurrent resolution condemns the President for ordering federal officers to use gas and rubber bullets against the Americans who were peaceably protesting in Lafayette Square in the District of Columbia on the night of June 1, 2020, thereby violating the constitutional rights of those protestors.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Con. Res. 39 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. CON. RES. 39

  Expressing the sense of Congress that the constitutional rights of 
   Americans to peaceably assemble, exercise freedom of speech, and 
 petition the Government for redress of grievances must be respected; 
 that violence and looting are unlawful, unacceptable, and contrary to 
   the purpose of peaceful protests; and that Congress condemns the 
President of the United States for ordering Federal officers to use gas 
and rubber bullets against the Americans who were peaceably protesting 
  in Lafayette Square in Washington, DC on the night of June 1, 2020, 
     thereby violating the constitutional rights of those peaceful 
                              protestors.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 4, 2020

Mr. Schumer (for himself, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. 
Booker, Mr. Brown, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Carper, Mr. Casey, Mr. 
  Coons, Ms. Cortez Masto, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. Durbin, Mrs. Feinstein, 
Mrs. Gillibrand, Ms. Harris, Ms. Hassan, Mr. Heinrich, Ms. Hirono, Mr. 
Jones, Mr. Kaine, Mr. King, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Manchin, Mr. 
Markey, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Murphy, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Peters, 
Mr. Reed, Ms. Rosen, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Schatz, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Sinema, 
  Ms. Smith, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Tester, Mr. Udall, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. 
   Warner, Ms. Warren, Mr. Whitehouse, and Mr. Wyden) submitted the 
following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
  Expressing the sense of Congress that the constitutional rights of 
   Americans to peaceably assemble, exercise freedom of speech, and 
 petition the Government for redress of grievances must be respected; 
 that violence and looting are unlawful, unacceptable, and contrary to 
   the purpose of peaceful protests; and that Congress condemns the 
President of the United States for ordering Federal officers to use gas 
and rubber bullets against the Americans who were peaceably protesting 
  in Lafayette Square in Washington, DC on the night of June 1, 2020, 
     thereby violating the constitutional rights of those peaceful 
                              protestors.

    Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), 
That it is the sense of Congress that the constitutional rights of 
Americans to peaceably assemble, exercise freedom of speech, and 
petition the Government for redress of grievances must be respected; 
that violence and looting are unlawful, unacceptable, and contrary to 
the purpose of peaceful protests; and that Congress condemns the 
President of the United States for ordering Federal officers to use gas 
and rubber bullets against the Americans who were peaceably protesting 
in Lafayette Square in Washington, DC on the night of June 1, 2020, 
thereby violating the constitutional rights of those peaceful 
protestors.
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