Loading ...Justice Department eyeing ways to sustain obstruction cases against Jan. 6 defendants
The Supreme Court narrowed the scope of a criminal obstruction statute used against hundreds of people who stormed the Capitol.
Federal prosecutors began signaling Monday that they may attempt to salvage dozens of felony cases they’ve leveled against Jan. 6 defendants, even after a Supreme Court ruling seemed poised to upend them.
It’s a sign the Justice Department does not view last week’s ruling from the high court as a blanket rejection of their efforts to apply a 20-year-old obstruction law — a vestige of the Enron financial crisis — against hundreds of people who stormed the Capitol in 2021 in Donald Trump’s name.