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Why the Supreme Court just ruled in favor of over 300 January 6 insurrectionists

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Why the Supreme Court just ruled in favor of over 300 January 6 insurrectionists

The rules governing statutory construction often allow judges to choose how they want to read a law.

By Ian Millhiser, VOX

On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that a federal law, providing that anyone who “obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so” commits a very serious federal crime, does not actually apply to everyone who obstructs, influences, or impedes an official proceeding.

Worse, the Court does so in a case involving a January 6 insurrectionist.

Approximately 330 people who allegedly participated in that insurrection are charged with violating the statute at issue in Fischer v. United States, including Donald Trump. So Friday’s decision could potentially undermine much of the Justice Department’s abilit

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