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5 ημέρες πριν · Legal. Justice Department eyeing ways to sustain obstruction cases against Jan. 6 defendants. The Supreme Court narrowed the scope of a criminal obstruction statute used against hundreds of...
5 ημέρες πριν · The case, Fischer v. United States, centered on whether Jan. 6 defendant Joseph W. Fischer broke the obstruction law when he joined the mob that breached the U.S. Capitol and delayed Congress, and Vice President Mike Pence, from certifying the 2020 presidential election results that declared Democrat Joe Biden the winner.
5 ημέρες πριν · The justices ruled 6-3 that the charge of obstructing an official proceeding, enacted in 2002 in response to the financial scandal that brought down Enron Corp., must include proof that...
5 ημέρες πριν · What it means: The Supreme Court has made it harder to charge Capitol riot defendants with obstruction — a charge that was also brought against Trump following the events of Jan. 6, 2021.
5 ημέρες πριν · Trump faces four felony counts in the Jan. 6 indictment: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstructing an official proceeding, and conspiracy to deprive millions of Americans of the right to have their votes counted. If convicted, he could face decades in prison.
5 ημέρες πριν · The law penalizes anyone who “alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object” or who “otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding.” The...
3 ημέρες πριν · Section 1512 (c) states: “Whoever corruptly (1) alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the object’s integrity...
