The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Jan. 6 defendant’s bid to narrow the scope of a charge against him. But its ruling didn't help the former president.
Among them, the January Sixth hearings into former President Donald Trump’s alleged attempts to nullify the results of the 2020 election, the U-S Supreme Court ruling on abortion — and headwinds in the U.S. economy. We begin with a report from CGTN’s Owen Fairclough....
The case is the first in which the Supreme Court has been tasked with tackling the fallout from the Jan. 6 attack head-on, and Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, who argued on behalf of the government, repeatedly sought to remind the justices of the unprecedented natu...
The decision marks the first time a court has found former President Donald Trump to be ineligible to return to the White House due to his conduct surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
A "general phrase is controlled and defined by reference to the terms that precede it," Roberts said of the court's precedent, nodding to references about documents and records. "What happened on January 6 was very, very serious. But we need to find out ...
The fallout from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack will land before the Supreme Court on Tuesday when the justices consider the scope of a federal obstruction statute.
"The Supreme Court had the opportunity in this case to exonerate Trump, and they chose not to do so. Every court — or decision-making body — that has substantively examined the issue has determined that January 6th was an insurrection and that Donald Trump incited it. That remains true ...
The Supreme Court on Friday limited the power of prosecutors to pursue obstruction charges against those who rioted at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, narrowing a law that could have tacked years onto the sentences of hundreds of defendants. The decision had implications for former ...
Today’s ruling: The Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Justice Department overstepped by bringing obstruction charges against hundreds of people who rioted at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, prompting at least some of those cases to be reopened. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion...
Within hours of the Supreme Court ruling in the Joseph Fischer case, trial-level judges in the DC District Court started reopening cases against January 6 rioters, indicating they may be re-sentenced. The Justice Department has indicted in several cases that it needs more time to consider the...