Supreme Court strikes obstruction charge used for hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters

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Federal prosecutors improperly charged a Jan. 6 defendant with obstruction, a divided Supreme Court ruled on Friday, likely upending many cases against rioters who disrupted the certification of the 2020 presidential election.

After the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, federal prosecutors charged more than 350 participants in the pro-Trump mob with obstructing or impeding an official proceeding. The charge carries a 20-year maximum penalty and is part of a law enacted after the exposure of massive fraud and shredding of documents during the collapse of the energy giant Enron.

 
In dissent, Justice Amy Coney Barrett — joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — said the court’s reading of the obstruction statute is too limited and requires the majority to do “textual backflips to find some way — any way — to narrow the reach” of the law.
 
Only effects 20% of those convicted, and two of the lesser charges against Trump, as if that trial is ever going to occur

Another one of those “Textualism” cases, what did the original lawmakers mean by “otherwise,” hard to understand how attempting to stop an official proceedings of Congress isn’t considered obstruction
 
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Only effects 20% of those convicted, and two of the lesser charges against Trump, as if that trial is ever going to occur

Another one of those “Textualism” cases, what did the original lawmakers mean by “otherwise,” hard to understand how attempting to stop an official proceedings of Congress isn’t considered obstruction
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Supreme Court is doing everything it can to make prosecuting Trump unconstitutional.
 
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