Posted on 06/28/2024 8:13:05 AM PDT by Red Badger
In the case of a former Pennsylvania police officer who entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Fischer v. United States, the court holds that to prove a violation of the law, the government must show that the defendant impaired the availability or integrity for use in an official proceeding of records, documents, objects, or other things used in an official proceeding, or attempted to do so. The case is returned to the lower court to determine whether the indictment can still stand in light of this new and narrower interpretation.
I’d feel so much better if we knew why this is being allowed to happen...
It was planned at the highest levels of the government. Pelosi, Schumer, Biden and the DC constabulary.............
What was the vote on this one?
This will take years of appeals to go through, costing each defendant a fortune.
Fisher ruling bttt
SQUISH Ms Junior League dissented joined by Kagan and Sotomayor. Jackson concurred with the Majority.
6-3....the gist of it is....obstruction can’t be mere presence...it must be tied to “real things”....documents, papers, things....that could, would result in obstruction.
I am convinced that nearly ALL of our media are CARD-CARRYING CIA OPERATIVES and NO I'm NOT joking.
They can DESTROY anyone to include KILLING them and anyone who doesn't go along gets IMPRISONED, BLACKMAILED OR THREATENED to fall in line. ANDREW BREITBART AND SETH RICH got too close to the truth.
James Clapper and John Brennan are STILL active players in this heinous cabal and THEY WOULD NOT BE RUNNING JOE BIDEN HAD THEY NOT ALREADY PLANNED TO STEAL THE NEXT ELECTION !!!
So why does the Court hold otherwise? Because it simply cannot believe that Congress meant what it said. Section 1512(c)(2) is a very broad provision, and admittedly, events like January 6th were not its target. (Who could blame Congress for that failure of imagination?) [After centuries of civil protests disrputing offical proceedings of legislatures who could possibly have imagined that it might happen again - why here only the brillian legal scholar ms squish herself] But statutes often go further than the problem that inspired them, and under the rules of statutory interpretation, we stick to the text anyway. The Court, abandoning that approach, does textual backflips to find some wayany way—to narrow the reach of subsection (c)(2).
Ms squish here would overturn a couple of centuries of requiring that criminal statutes be strictly construed and that vague or indefinite language that does not put a potential offender on clear notice of the fact that the offense is criminal conduct is unconstitutionally vague.
The majority did their duty, construed the statute in such a way so that what is clear stands as constitutional law and what is vague does not.
And after a couple of centuries of a view that civil protest is lawful and constitutioanlly protected why would anyone believe that a civil protest on public property constitute a felony for which they could be jailed for 20 years. In fact the federal judiciary has bent over backwrads to allow as protected protest things that would otherwise be felonies, such as arson.
This dissent settles an issue. ACB admires the deepstate and despises Trump supporters so much that should would bend constitutionally protected acts around a vague statute and nail conservatives to her cross.
Let my J6 people go!
It must be acts to obstruct by tainting or destroying things that constitute evidence to be used in an official proceeding, documents, papers, the murder weapon, the stained dress...
SCOTUS is on a roll, love it.
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Opinion of the Court: Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Jackson
Dissent: Sotomayor, Kagan, Barrett
Slime Barrett and Jackson cover for each other. Such happens on SCOTUS, to ‘preserve the institution’. Orders from CJ Roberts.
Bingo!
There’s no Kaboom here
It reiterate what a lower court said
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