Supreme Court Hands Win To Hundreds Of Jan. 6 Defendants, Weakens DOJ’s Case, by Tyler Durden

This doesn’t cancel out the decision in the social media censorship case, but at least it’s a win for the good guys. From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com:

The Supreme Court on Friday handed around 350 Jan. 6 defendants a potentially huge win, while weakening the DOJ’s case against former President Trump in the process.

The court narrowed one specific chargeobstructing an official proceeding – that the DOJ had relied on in more than 300 J6 cases, including Trump’s, Axios reports. This charge has been used almost exclusively to prosecute white-collar crimes like evidence tampering, however the DOJ tried to apply it to J6 defendants, arguing that the riot was an attempt to obstruct an official proceeding – that being the certification of the 2020 election.

The court on Friday said that prosecutors would now need to show that a defendant interfered with documents, records or other material parts of an official proceeding. They also sent the case back to a lower court to reassess Jan. 6 cases in light of the new test.

Oddly, Barrett dissented, saying that the majority “does textual backflips to find some way—any way—to narrow the reach” of the obstruction law.

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One response to “Supreme Court Hands Win To Hundreds Of Jan. 6 Defendants, Weakens DOJ’s Case, by Tyler Durden

  1. Colonel Kilgore Trout

    Reading about some pearl clutcher at the Atlantic saying that why should Trump be given any platform after the Munich Beer Hall Putsch (s/) coup.

    Be thankful that we aren’t that lame and out of touch and hopefully they never find out about the British burning the sacred cesspool swamp down during WAR.

    Can we even coexist with Yankee anymore?

    Breaking from Midnight Star:

    Curious

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