[Lurking Libertarian]

Thousands and thousands of Americans commit this 'serious felony' every ten years during the decennial Census."

You're leaving out the "by force and violence" part of the statute. Not too many Americans point loaded weapons at Census agents.

[kiryandil]

You're leaving out the "by force and violence" part of the statute. Not too many Americans point loaded weapons at Census agents.

There's a WHOLE RAFT of ways you can "impede" a "Federal official", and it doesn't have to be by force and violence.

And there's a WHOLE RAFT of "Federal officials", as you can see in my post #49.

You're aware that there's a lot of sections of U.S. Code 18?