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S. 3366119th CongressCrime and Law Enforcement
Back the Blue Act of 2025
Sponsored by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) · 38 active : 38 Republicans
Latest action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Where it standsBefore the Senate8 senators score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
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- House: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
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This bill establishes new criminal offenses for violent conduct against judicial officers and law enforcement officers and makes related changes. The bill also broadens the authority of certain law enforcement officers to carry firearms.
Specifically, the bill prohibits killing, attempting to kill, or conspiring to kill a federal judge, a federal law enforcement officer, or a public safety or judicial officer for a state, local, or tribal agency that receives federal funding. The bill also prohibits fleeing to avoid prosecution, custody, or confinement for an offense.
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Additionally, the bill prohibits killing former federal judges, former federal law enforcement officers, or former public safety or judicial officers for state, local, or tribal agencies that receive federal funding.
The bill also prohibits certain assaults on state or local law enforcement officers for state (or District of Columbia) agencies that receive federal funding.
The bill limits federal court review of challenges to state court convictions for killing a public safety officer or judge. The bill also limits the recoverability of damages and attorney's fees in a proceeding to enforce a civil rights violation during or relating to conduct by the injured person that constitutes a felony or crime of violence.
The bill allows federal, state, and local law enforcement officers to carry firearms if authorized by law. The bill also allows qualified law enforcement officers to carry concealed firearms and ammunition (including magazines) in school zones and in certain federal facilities that are open to the public.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on the Judiciary · SenateReferred to
Subjects
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How the Senate breaks down
- 8Swing 70–100
- 39Middle 30–70
- 53Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2, directional: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
38 activeShow all 38 cosponsors
- Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
- Bill Hagerty (R-TN)
- Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
- Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
- Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY)
- David McCormick (R-PA)
- Deb Fischer (R-NE)
- James C. Justice (R-WV)
- James E. Risch (R-ID)
- James Lankford (R-OK)
- Jim Banks (R-IN)
- John Barrasso (R-WY)
- John Boozman (R-AR)
- John Kennedy (R-LA)
- Joni Ernst (R-IA)
- Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL)
- Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
- Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
