Our democracy is being tested.

What was routine is now in question.

Will the winner of a fair election assume the office?

For the last two sessions, my response to January 7 was legislation criminalizing domestic terrorism.

But even my liberal friends had problems with the term.

Would a misguided prosecutor indict people for engagining in civil disobedience?

A few weeks ago, I learned that Maryland law already makes it a crime for a person “by threat, force, or corrupt means, [to] obstruct, impede, or try to obstruct or impede the administration of justice in a court of the State.”

My bill would extend that prohibition to the other two branches of government, the executive and the legislative.

The legislation would make no change to what action constitues the crime nor the penalty for a violation.

I’m not reinventing the wheel.

I’m trying to preserve our democracy.