As an aside, SCOTUS will be issuing Opinions tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. We have no idea which cases those will be. Also, since Friday the Court has added an addition opinion day for this week. So, more rulings will be released on Wednesday as well.
For a list of cases for this term you can go here:
https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/terms/ot2023/
Thanks for posting.
Don’t count on it
Nope....there’s not a court in the country...including SCOTUS...with both the decency *and* the courage to do the right thing here. DJT *will* go to trial in DC...and elsewhere. It’s just a question of when.
The defendants in enron were being investigated, so they destroyed evidence and performed actions making it harder to get to the truth about their crime. In other words, they already were suspects and they were attempting to destroy evidence.
The protesters on j6 were not under investigation when they visited the capitol. They were not attempting corruptly to destroy evidence about their crime. There was no crime committed that they were intentionally trying to conceal.
Enron criminals knew they’d done something wrong and their destruction of evidence was to hide it. J6 protesters were not already participants in a crime they were seeking to conceal. In fact, they were not trying to conceal anything. There’s hours and hours on camera of them protesting.
They did not violate this law. It is not an anti-protester law. If it is, then it is unconstitutional since protest is protected activity.
Title 18 Section 1512(c), which reads:
“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 or availability for use in an official proceeding; or (2) otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.”
They have as much spine as the rest of the country. None.
“Will It?”
My money is on “no” - they will punt.
The entire justice system has been debased, corrupted and degraded - not that the correct decision would stop this regime.
Look at how Biden is ignoring the SCOTUS ruling on student loans.