Thursday, February 1, 2024

January 6 Defendants File Challenges in U.S. Supreme Court To Abuse Of ‘Obstruction of Justice’ Law

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.

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.

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: For A Limited Time: Get A Lifetime License For Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 For 82% Off ... On Monday, January 29, a Supreme Court decision leaped closer.

Is "obstruction of an official proceeding" through public demonstrations actually a crime or has the U.S. Department of Justice invented a new crime that doesn't exist? If the Supreme Court returns the statute to its previous interpretation and rejects prosecutorial adventurism, convictions of a hundred or so J6ers would be vacated, especially the harshest sentences.

If the DoJ has never before believed that 18 U.S.C. 1512 covers demonstrations, why should the Supreme Court take a different view today? Merrick Garland wants to apply a statute in a way very different from the DoJ's own past behavior.

Lang filed an excellent brief asking the Supreme Court to take the case.

The Supreme Court explicitly took Joseph Fischer's appeal, although probably implicitly including Lang's appeal as well. 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/january-6-defendants-file-challenges-u-s-supreme/

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