The Supreme Court dominated that the Justice Department overstepped by charging a whole lot of people that rioted on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, with obstruction in a choice that would power prosecutors to reopen at the least a few of these instances.
A former Pennsylvania police officer who rioted on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, challenged federal obstruction prices filed towards him. Prosecutors mentioned the cost ought to apply to the January 6 instances as a result of the plain which means of the phrases “obstruct” an “official proceeding” covers the assault. Some 350 rioters had been charged with the crime, which may add as much as 20 years in jail.
