The Supreme Court docket on Wednesday agreed to listen to a lawsuit involving the Biden Justice Division’s 1512(c)(2) fees used towards January 6 defendants
The excessive court docket’s determination on the unconstitutional DOJ fees used towards J6rs could impression Particular Counsel Jack Smith’s case towards Trump.
SCOTUS will hear Fischer vs. United States, the lawsuit questioning the unconstitutional 1512(c)(2) fees utilized by the Biden Division of Justice to abuse and punish January 6 protesters who got here to Washington DC to protest the stolen 2020 election.
The case entails three J6 defendants: Jake Lang, who we have now reported on extensively right here at The Gateway Pundit, Garret Miller, who pleaded responsible to 11 different legal fees and was sentenced in February, and Joseph Fischer, who, like Lang, continues to await trial.
“The Court docket will hear Fischer v. United States, a January 6 case difficult the scope of part 1512(c)(2), which criminalizes obstruction of an official continuing. Two of the 4 fees President Trump faces in his DC case contain 1512(c)(2),” former federal prosecutor Will Scharf stated.
“That part, first handed as a part of Sarbanes-Oxley in 2004, has sometimes been used to prosecute destruction of proof or related conduct. Its applicability to alleged obstruction of the electoral depend course of has been hotly contested for the reason that begin of the January 6 prosecutions, and the DC Circuit cut up sharply on the difficulty,” he stated.
“This can be a large deal, with doubtlessly main ramifications for a lot of January 6 defendants in addition to for President Trump,” Scharf added.
MASSIVE information out of the Supreme Court docket this morning.
The Court docket will hear Fischer v. United States, a January 6 case difficult the scope of part 1512(c)(2), which criminalizes obstruction of an official continuing. Two of the 4 fees President Trump faces in his DC case… pic.twitter.com/8R8GmudItA
— Will Scharf (@willscharf) December 13, 2023
In September Trump was hit with 4 counts in Jack Smith’s January 6 case up in DC: Conspiracy to defraud the US, conspiracy to impede an official continuing, obstruction of and try and impede an official continuing, and conspiracy towards rights.
In accordance with the indictment reviewed by The Gateway Pundit, counts 2 and three are tied to the “conspiracy to impede an official continuing” fees being reviewed by the US Supreme Court docket.
Two of Jack Smith’s fees towards Trump are actually in jeopardy.