Supreme Court overturn the "obstruction of justice" impeachment resolution against President Trump? No, that's not true: The U.S. constitution specifies that the House of Representatives has "the sole power of impeachment" and the Senate has the "sole power to try all ...
Washington —The Supreme CourtsaidWednesday that it will hear a court fight involving the breadth of a federal obstruction law that has been used to prosecute scores of defendants for their alleged actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, as well as former President Don...
"What happened on Jan. 6 was very, very serious," Justice Samuel Alito said after asking whether a protester who disrupts a Supreme Court argument could be charged with violating the obstruction law. "But we need to find out what are the outer reaches of this statute under your interpr...
The Supreme Court’s ruling in former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case makes it all but certain that the Republican will not face trial in Washington ahead of the November election.
b) any information which he knows to be false, but for the purpose of causingannoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred, orill will, persistently makes by making use of such computer resource or a communication device, ...
And the high court separately has agreed to hear a case over the charge of obstruction of an official proceeding that has been brought against Trump as well as more than 300 of his supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. In the current immunity case...
The Supreme Court issued a consequential decision on Friday that could affect the prosecutions of more than 300 Jan. 6 cases, as well as the special counsel's case against former President Donald Trump. The justices said prosecutors went too far by
But the Justice Department's use of that law is now under scrutiny from the Supreme Court, which is considering whether federal prosecutors can apply the obstruction law, passed in the wake of the Enron scandal, to the Jan. 6 attack. ...
When discussing the issue of determining motivation in the case, Justice Neil Gorsuch highlighted the historical importance of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the matter of presidential immunity. “I’m not concerned about this case, but I am concerned about future uses of the criminal law to ...
How to Know If the Supreme Court Is in the Tank for Trump Justice Alito questions DOJ use of 'obstruction' in Jan. 6 cases Legal Supreme Court takes its deepest plunge into Jan. 6, with possible implications for Trump Legal Justice Thomas misses Supreme Court session Monday with no explanati...