Supreme Court possibly upends scores of Jan. 6 Capitol riot prosecutions, narrows obstruction charge

NY Post ^ | 06/28/2024 | Ryan King

[ChicagoConservative27]

In a move that could upend scores of Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot prosecutions, the Supreme Court on Friday narrowed the use of a charge of obstructing an official proceeding.

In a 6- 3 decision in which Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joined the conservative majority and Justice Amy Coney Barrett sided with the liberal dissenters, the high court concluded that prosecutors need to hang closer to the statutory langue of the obstruction charge used in a slew of Jan. 6 prosecutions.

“The Government must establish that the defendant impaired the availability or integrity for use in an official proceeding of records, documents, objects, or as we earlier explained, other things used in the proceeding, or attempted to do so,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion.

At issue was a technical reading of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act which stipulates that anyone who “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 otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so” faces criminal liability.

[Thank You Rush]

“”high profile corporate accounting scandals at the time.””

Outdone by Enron, I would say. I am reading “Conspiracy of Fools”..has more or as many pages as “Atlas Shrugged” or “Unintended Consequences”. I may not live long enough to finish it. I was much younger when I read those two...

I do most of my reading in bed and this isn’t a book to read in bed - can barely lift it so it remains on my dining room table and I read while I eat.

[Republican Wildcat]

We get a whole slew of conservative opinions, including 5-4 decisions such as the overturning of Roe v. Wade (that’s kind of a big one), that would not have occurred without ACB being on the Court...yet we were “burned” by ACB?

Is Kentanji Brown Jackson now a conservative justice because of the way she ruled on this and a couple of other cases?

[WASCWatch]

The DOJ and D.C. judges will twist the words of thise decision to keep prosecuting and imprisoning these patriots.