by WorldTribune Staff, June 13, 2024 Contract With Our Readers In an April hearing, the conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court’s questioned the Department of Justice on its use of an obscure federal obstruction statute related to white collar crime passed after the Enron accounting scandal to prosecute hundreds of J6 defendants who entered […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 21, 2024 The Supreme Court next month will decide if the Department of Justice’s use of 1512(c)(2), obstruction of an official proceeding, to charge hundreds of Jan. 6 protesters was illegally applied. In response, the DOJ has vowed that it will pursue more prison time for those who have been convicted […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 15, 2023 Special prosecutor Jack Smith’s 45-page indictment of former President Donald Trump includes a felony charge of “obstruction of an official proceeding.” A petition pending before the Supreme Court seeks to overturn the application of that law , 1512(c)(2), in Jan. 6 cases. Trump and more than 300 individuals have […]
