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Obstruction of justice is an umbrella term covering a variety of specific crimes. [1] Black's Law Dictionary defines it as any "interference with the orderly administration of law and justice". [2] Obstruction has been categorized by various sources as a process crime, [3] a public-order crime, [4] [5] or a white-collar crime. [6]
Corruptly obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding is a felony under U.S. federal law. It was enacted as part of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 in reaction to the Enron scandal, and closed a legal loophole on who could be charged with evidence tampering by defining the new crime very broadly.
House Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives Found in contempt by a 216–207 vote for refusing to comply with subpoenas from the House Judiciary and Oversight committees. [54] Merrick Garland, U.S. Attorney General July 10, 2024 Brought forward by a privileged resolution written by U.S. Representative Anna Paulina Luna [55]
House members Nancy Pelosi, Joaquin Castro and Rashida Tlaib also came out in support of the indictment. [246] Following Trump's reelection in 2024, former House Judiciary Committee chair Jerry Nadler complained that "Merrick Garland wasted a year" before appointing the special prosecutor in late 2022. Though Garland might have acted more ...
Article 2: "Obstruction of Congress by directing defiance of certain subpoenas issued by the House of Representatives" Amended version reported by the Committee on the Judiciary on December 15, 2019; article 1 adopted on December 18, 2019 by a vote of 230–197; article 2 adopted on December 18, 2019 by a vote of 229–198 [20] [21]
Fischer v. United States, 603 U.S. ___, was a United States Supreme Court case about the proper use of the felony charge of obstructing an official proceeding, established in the Sarbanes–Oxley Act, against participants in the January 6 United States Capitol attack.
On December 13, 2019, the D.C. Circuit's panel of Judith W. Rogers, Thomas B. Griffith, and Neomi Rao ordered a briefing to address whether the House Judiciary Committee has Article III standing. [8] On December 16, House General Counselor Douglas Letter filed a brief outlining the importance of obtaining the grand jury materials. [9] [10]
Brown took the lead in October 1972 in obstructing the efforts of Rep. Wright Patman, D-TX, to have the House Banking and Currency Committee investigate the flow of illegal campaign funds to the Watergate burglars. By July 1973, with the scheme unraveling in the courts and in televised Senate hearings, Brown was admitting he had been wrong to ...