Posted on 02/01/2024 12:27:24 AM PST by JonathonMoseley
The existential fate of the First Amendment of the US Constitution rests in the hands of the Supreme Court and whether the high court of appeal will strike down 18 U.S.C. 1512(c)(2), the most serious criminal charges leveled against former President Donald Trump and an ever-growing number of January 6 defendants.
1512 criminalizes any effort to “corruptly” obstruct, influence or impede any official proceeding.” A conviction can result in a prison sentence of up to 20 years.
Last April, an appellate court issued a splintered 2-1 ruling endorsing the DOJ’s unprecedented misuse of the statute, a law passed under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002 outlawing evidence tampering in the aftermath of the Enron/Arthur Anderson accounting scandal. The law has never in United States history been used to prosecute demonstrators or rioters.
Jonathon Moseley, an investigative researcher and paralegal with Former Feds Group, a team of former federal government lawyers turned defense counsel, provided The Gateway Pundit analysis of the 1512 Obstruction of Official Proceeding appeal that is looming on the Supreme Court Docket:
On Monday, January 29, a Supreme Court decision leaped closer. Joseph Fischer filed his Principal “Brief on the Merits” by attorney Frederich Ulrich which you can read here.
Attorney Ed Tarpley filed an Amicus Curiae (friend of the Court) brief for FormerFeds Freedom Foundation. America’s Future with others also filed a brief here. Christopher Warnagiris, Christopher Carnell, and William Robert Norwood, III filed a brief.
For non-lawyers, it might take a few read-throughs, but you can still get a lot out of reading these.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
My fear is that they’ll argue the January 6 official counting of the 2020 election results in Congress was a very special official proceeding they can rest the 1512 hook upon.
Yeah, that is total bullshiite
Very great insights. Thanks.
But I have my fingers crossed.
This is (as too often) for “all the marbles” and we have to stay on the path. This reminds me of the movies where a bus driving on a South American mountain is a few inches from falling off the mountain as it navigates the curves.
Thanks for the link.
We’ll be watching..... Nail biting.
Oh, very droll. Good one. Depressing, but very truthful. YOu’d think they’d come up with some new excuses sometime.
Wow. Scary.
You know that January 6 judges are increasing sentences on convicted defendants for pleading not guilty and demanding a trial?
So your nightmare scenario is not that unlikely at all.
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