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Four North Carolina Republican lawmakers want to prevent demonstrators from blocking roads and highways during protests.

The Safe and Open Streets Act, which Sen. Thom Tillis filed in the Senate and Reps. Chuck Edwards, Richard Hudson and David Rouzer filed in the House, would make it a federal crime to block public roads or highways.

On Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 16, digging into a damp field in Carthage, 10 shiny red shovels from ACE Hardware broke ground on the campus of New Covenant Fellowship, as construction is set to begin on a 21,000-square-foot facility for the private Christian school Fellowship Christian Academy (FCA). With a sizable crowd of onlookers, Senior Pastor Lee McKinney paused to thank the Lord for His provision and grace, and to mark this momentous occasion with an excavator behind him and eager parents, students, staff and church family gathered around.

Dozens upon dozens of political leaders, lawmakers, scholars and organizations have filed or joined amicus briefs at the Supreme Court in support of the National Rifle Association’s First Amendment lawsuit against a former New York state regulator accused of weaponizing her office to silence the civil rights organization, Fox News Digital has learned. 

Republican North Carolina Rep. Richard Hudson and Kentucky Rep. Brett Guthrie introduced a bill Wednesday to stop Democratic-led states from providing Medicare to illegal immigrants, according to a copy of the legislation first obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Dozens of congressional Republicans are urging the Supreme Court to side with the National Rifle Association in its lawsuit against a New York state regulator accused of pressuring financial institutions to blacklist the Second Amendment rights organization. 

A group of 81 Republican lawmakers is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to side with the National Rifle Association in a lawsuit alleging the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) has wrongfully pressured financial institutions to sever ties with the gun rights advocacy group.

Four North Carolina congressional Republicans have moved to prevent protesters from blocking roads during protests.

Driving the news: Under the Safe and Open Streets Act, which U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis filed in the Senate and U.S. Reps. Chuck Edwards, Richard Hudson and David Rouzer filed in the House in recent weeks, it would be a federal crime to block public roads or highways.