Posted on 12/13/2023 7:50:11 AM PST by RandFan
@julie_kelly2
HOLY SH*T: Supreme Court will review 1512(c)(2), obstruction of an official proceeding case.
This is felony used against 300+ J6ers and represents half of Jack Smith's indictment against Trump.
If SCOTUS determines DOJ has misused the statute...will be a game changer.
(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...
But the D’alesandro family were not from Sicily and were more connected to Calabria, thus the conjecture that the Baltimore Crew was actually Calabrian and simply allied with the Gambino organization.
Maybe you can ask them.
The worst part of the Jan 6 prosecutions is their arbitrary nature. Still, the Vagueness Doctrine might apply, although the DC circuit court upheld a similarly vague and arbitrarily enforced law in Agnew v. Government of the District of Columbia.
Here for the geniuses at the Harvard Law Review who oppose that decision bc, well, it’s raaaacist: https://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1766-1773_Online.pdf
Ya think the authors would see any application to Jan 6? Doubtful, as they see only the tips of their own noses, but the same logic should apply.
For sure, but that is part and parcel of the application of the law as (vaguely) written. Either side can plead for "common sense" application. It becomes a question of whose common sense.
Thanks for the link.
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