US Supreme Court Makes Jan 6 Move

for the first time in almost three full years the US Supreme Court has finally agreed to take on a Case related to January 6 prisoners in this case it can have huge ramifications not only for the plaintiffs in the lawsuit but also for almost everyone else who has been charged with obstruction of Congress which includes president Donald Trump himself now let me break down for you exactly what this case is all about to start with the Department of Justice keeps a special page on their website which is devoted to listing out the indictments that they've issued in relation to what happened over on January 6 and if you scroll through that list you'll find that the most widely charged felony is obstruction specifically almost 330 defendants alongside president Trump himself have been charged with corruptly obstructing an official proceeding with the official proceeding being a joint session of Congress that was convened to certify the Electoral College votes on January 6 and this obstruction charge is a felony however many of the defendants are arguing that the underlying statute that they're being charged under is actually being completely Mis interpreted by the federal courts because you see the specific law that these individuals are being charged under this law right here the sarban Oxley Act of 2002 otherwise known as the corporate and auditing accountability responsibility and transparency act now this law was passed by Congress back in the year 2002 shortly after the financial fraud at Enron and Worldcom were exposed to the public and essentially this law was meant to close up some of the accounting loopholes which allowed companies like Enron to perpetuate massive fraudulent schemes the law has a number of Provisions in it making it illegal to do things like destroy evidence uh to impede Federal investigations it provides certain protections for corporate whistleblowers and then also relevant to our discussion this law has an entire subsection related to obstructing an official proceeding now this particular subsection it came about directly as a reaction to what happened over at Enron if you remember enron's auditor was actively destroying documents that were potentially incriminating to the company but at the time the law was such that there was essentially a loophole where the state could only prosecute people who are persuading others to destroy evidence but the state could not prosecute the people who were actually destroying the evidence themselves the people who are act actually committing the ACT could not be prosecuted that was the loophole and so this new law it fixed this particular loophole by defining obstruction very very broadly and it's exactly this provision in this law that has been used to charge January 6 defendants for your reference here's exactly what the law says quote whoever corruptly obstructs influences or impedes any official proceeding or attempts to do so shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years or both with the term official proceeding being defined like this within the law quote an official proceeding includes proceedings before federal judges Congress as well as federal government agencies and so that is the backstory of the statute that's being used to charge January 6 defendants it was a provision in a 2002 law that was specifically passed to close a loophole in financial accounting fraud meaning that this is the law which has allowed Federal prosecutors to charge nearly 300 January 6 defendants with felony obstruction rather than just misdemeanor trespassing which is exactly why January 6 defendants have been appealing and trying to get their cases to the US Supreme Court so that the highest court in the land can make an official determination as to whether or not these federal judges interpretation of this particular statute is correct the arguments that the January 6 defendants are making is that this particular law it only applies to the destruction of documents or other evidence and that any other interpretation of that law is stretching it Way Beyond what the lawmakers to Envision at the time of its passage and while for the past 3 years now they've been quiet about it well just two days ago the US Supreme Court issued an order saying that they've accepted to review the petitions of several different January 6 defendants who are looking to appeal their cases the January 6 defendants who have been granted an appeal are as follows Joseph Wayne Fischer Mr Jacob Lang as well as Mr Garth Miller and as you can imagine these defendants were quite thrilled that the Supreme Court finally took up their case for instance the lawyer who's representing Mr fiser he told us here at The Epic Times that quote qu we're very happy that the court has decided to clarify the scope of section 1512 C2 likewise aside from these three defendants themselves all of the other January 6 defendants as well well they're eagerly looking at the Supreme Court case with anticipation because how the Supreme Court rules in this case will actually have direct implications in their cases as well and so for instance you have Mr William pope from Kansas who is also being charged by federal prosecutors with obstruction and here's what he said regarding this case quote the tideus turned the Supreme Court taking up the obstruction of an official proceeding appeal is a clear message to the doj that government extremism has gone too far that more than 300 Americans including president Trump myself and many currently in prison were wrongfully charged sadly the doj has for the last three years used the obstruction charge which the Supreme Court is now primed to throw out to pressure January 6 defendants into taking bad plea deals the outcomes of many cases would be far different if not for this doj m practice furthermore as he mentioned here besides the serious implications for all the January 6 defendants currently in jail as well as the ones currently on trial this case also has significant implications for president Trump as well that's because as we mentioned at the very top of this episode over in Washington DC quote president Trump was charged in August with several counts related to obstruction of the joint session of Congress on January the 6th a grand jury indicted him for obstruction of an official proceeding attempting to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding among other counts and so that Supreme Court case will have direct implications on whether or not the charges against President Trump can actually proceed in a court of law if the Supreme Court rules that the underlying statute is being misinterpreted by the courts then very likely these charges against President Trump will be thrown out which is a point that was made quite clear by defense attorney William Shipley quote the decision by the Supreme Court of the United States today to take up the appeal on the 512 obstruction of an official proceeding case means the Trump DC case will not be going to trial this is the easy way to make that happen without directly acting on the Trump case on an expedited basis and so there you have it that is where the case currently stands the US Supreme Court agreed to take up the case the implications for all the defendants including president Trump himself will be significant and all the while January 6 defendants continue sitting inside of a jail cell awaiting their trial which is really insane if you think about it for instance one of the defendants in this US Supreme Court case is Mr Jake langang who has been incarcerated in pre-trial detention for nearly three years think about that he's been sitting in jail for well over a thousand days awaiting trial during that period of time couples have met each other dated got married and had children all in the span of time that Mr Lang and others like him have been detained in the Department of Corrections without bond 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