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   The statewide DFL Party has slammed a Republican piece of legislation   
   that would prohibit protests that take place outside a person’s private   
   residence.   
      
   The bill, HF 2809, is authored by Rep. Walter Hudson and has over two   
   dozen co-authors, all of whom are Republican. The bill was originally   
   introduced in March of 2025, but is scheduled for a hearing later today.   
      
   According to the bill, anyone who “who protests before or about the   
   residence or dwelling of any person, except when the residence or   
   dwelling is used as a place of business,” would be guilty of a   
   misdemeanor. Repeat offenders would be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.   
      
   The bill “does not prohibit the peaceful protesting of the place of   
   holding a meeting or assembly on premises commonly used to discuss   
   subjects of general public interest.”   
      
   Speaking to Jon Justice on Twin Cities News Talk radio Tuesday, Hudson   
   said “it’s entirely appropriate to prohibit protest at somebody’s   
   residence; I don’t care who they are. This would apply to every person   
   in Minnesota, every residence in Minnesota.”   
      
   Elaborating, the second-term Republican said, “There are plenty of other   
   ways in the year 2026 to make your voice heard and to register your   
   dissent from whatever it is you feel people are doing that you disagree   
   with.   
      
   “The idea that you’re going to go to their house and disturb the   
   peaceful enjoyment of their property, and terrorize neighbors and   
   children and family, should be completely outside the bounds of what we   
   consider acceptable behavior in polite society,” added Hudson.   
      
   In recent years, Minnesota has seen several protests take place outside   
   the private homes of public figures.   
      
   Among them was the 2020 protest outside the home of then-Minneapolis   
   Police Federation President Bob Kroll. At that protest, dozens of   
   agitators harassed neighborhood residents and smashed effigies of Kroll   
   and his wife, Liz Collin.   
      
   Left-wing protests have occurred outside GOP State Sen. Warren Limmer’s   
   home and the home of a Washington County official involved in the Kim   
   Potter case. Democratic Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey’s home has also   
   been targeted by protesters.   
      
   Last year, Hudson said an individual was publicly encouraging people to   
   protest outside his home.   
      
   The Minnesota DFL Party reacted to Hudson’s bill on Tuesday, saying,   
   “Minnesotans protest because Republicans aren’t doing their jobs.   
   Instead of fixing that, the GOP wants to make protesting a crime.”   
      
   Speaking about his bill Tuesday, Hudson said, “It has no encroachment   
   whatsoever on the First Amendment. You don’t have a First Amendment   
   right to come into my house and start yelling at me at my bed; same   
   thing goes with my property more generally.”   
      
   Alpha News reached out to Hudson’s office to ask if his bill would   
   prohibit protests that occur outside the governor’s mansion in St. Paul.   
   Protests at that location have become more and more frequent in recent   
   years.   
      
   “My understanding is that the bill would not prohibit protest at the   
   governor’s mansion due to its status as one of our ‘meeting/assembly   
   locations open to public discourse,'” Hudson told Alpha News. “The   
   governor’s mansion is more than a residence.”   
      
   “That said, I would not be opposed to a broader interpretation,” he   
   added. “I do not believe any residence should be subject to disruption.”   
      
   https://alphanews.org/minnesota-dfl-slams-legislation-that-would-ban-prot   
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