Supreme Court’s decision on obstruction charge will impact trials of hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters and, potentially, former president Donald Trump.
A violent mob breaches the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, disrupting the certification of Joe Biden's 2020 election victory. defendants with obstruction, a divided Supreme Court ruled on Friday, upending many cases against rioters who disrupted the certification of the 2020 presidential election., federal prosecutors charged more than 350 participants in the pro-Trump mob with obstructing or impeding an official proceeding.
In dissent, Justice Amy Coney Barrett — joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — said the court’s reading of the obstruction statute is too limited and requires the majority to do “textual backflips to find some way —— who are serving time in prison for only this felony. It also could impact about 110 more who are awaiting trial or sentencing, according to prosecutors.
there are no examples of prosecutors using the two-decade-old obstruction charge against legitimate protesters exercising their right to free speech.was how to interpret the text of a statute Congress amended in 2002 as part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which followed the Enron scandal, and particularly the meaning of the word “otherwise.”
The law includes a penalty of up to 20 years in prison for anyone who “corruptly — 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.”have sided with prosecutors’ view that the second clause of the law should be read as a “catchall.
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