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The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a former police officer who is seeking to throw out an obstruction charge for joining the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, in a ruling that could benefit former ...
More than 330 Jan. 6 rioters could have their convictions and sentences tossed thanks to a ruling from the Supreme Court on Friday.. In a 6-3 decision, the court ruled that an “obstruction of an ...
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Friday tossed out a portion of a Jan. 6 defendant's sentence that could affect more than a hundred other cases related to the 2021 attack on the Capitol ...
On June 28, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling which ruled in favor of defendant Joseph Fischer and found that a section of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act could not to be used to bring obstruction charges against the January 6 defendants. [370] Soon after the ruling, more January 6 prosecution cases would be reopened. [371]
By January 6, 2022, one year after the attack, more than 725 people had been charged for their involvement; over the following year, the number increased to more than 950. [42] [43] A thousand people had been charged with federal crimes by the end of January 2023, two years after the attack, [6] rising to more than 1,100 in August 2023. [44]
The 59-year-old woman from Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and Bucks County gym owner, who recorded a video during the attack on Jan 6 mentioning doing her part in breaking into the Capitol. In the video, not posted to social media or "meant for mass distribution", she remarked about the goal of shooting House Speaker Pelosi "in the friggin' brain ...
The Supreme Court undercuts the most serious charges against Trump supporters who in the Jan. 6 riot tried to stop Congress from certifying Biden's presidential victory.
The first Jan. 6 rioter to face trial is now the second to receive a reduced sentence following the Supreme Court’s narrowing of an obstruction charge used against scores of participants in the ...