In June, the Supreme Court generated attention by ruling that a federal law had been misapplied to prosecute numerous defendants involved in January 6.
The decision surprised federal prosecutors and may result in overturned convictions for the defendants.
The case, known as Joseph Fischer v. United States, centered on former Pennsylvania law enforcement officer Joseph Fischer’s actions at the Capitol on January 6, 2020.
He was charged under Section 1512(c)(2), a law enacted by Congress following the Enron financial scandal.
Fischer’s legal team argued that his behavior did not align with the type of conduct intended to be criminalized under the statute, a stance supported by six members of the Supreme Court.
In his majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts expressed doubt that Congress would have included such broad charges that extended beyond the document destruction involved in the Enron case.
“The better conclusion is that subsection (c)(2) was designed by Congress to capture other forms of evidence and other means of impairing its integrity or availability beyond those Congress specified in (c)(1),” Roberts concluded.
According to an article by The Hill this week, over 350 rioters, including former Virginia police officer Thomas Robertson, have been charged under 1512(c)(2).
Robertson was given a sentence of more than seven years in 2022 after being found guilty on six charges, one of which involved violating 1512(c)(2).
Prosecutors claimed that Robertson used his law enforcement training to prevent the police from pushing back the mob, even striking two officers with a large wooden stick.
The Hill reported that Robertson’s sentence was later overturned following a federal appeals court decision on sentencing guidelines.
Despite the court’s suggestion to consider the Supreme Court’s Fischer decision for a new sentence, prosecutors opposed any leniency for Robertson in their recent filing.
However, Robertson’s lawyers argued that he should be given a sentence between 24 and 30 months, emphasizing his exemplary behavior as an inmate for the past three years.
“While incarcerated for the past 37 months, Mr. Robertson has made the most of his time by actively seeking self-improvement and educational opportunities,” they wrote.
He was just exercising his 2nd amendment rights which is something we all need to do and remove, all of the present government and reinstall the original CONSTITUTION AL government with the original 10 AMENDMENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
None of these people should be in the goo-log from the “insurrection “ when Nancy Pelosi is the one who made it possible! She is the criminal and should be prosecuted!
Absolutely. And she should be called out for her repeated public drunkenness during Trump’s SOTU speeches. She has been a criminal for decades!
None of these people should be in the goo-log from the “insurrection “ when Nancy Pelosi is the one who made it possible! She is the criminal and should be prosecuted!
3 years late! Not impressed! Fk the SCOTUS!
When does the SCOTUS step up to stop the Marxist rot in the Feral Courts?
Waiting years to overturn a BS case that never had legal standing originally allows the plaintiff to be ruined! The long costly process is the intended punishment and goal of Marxist Lawfare, not the sham verdict that will be thrown out years later!
NEW SCOTUS RULE
All Government staged trials, agency edicts, State laws, state agency edicts and even a Governor’s own edict that have a direct bearing on the US Constitution or that violate existing US laws MUST pass a SCOTUS review and approval BEFORE trial or implementation begins. If found in violation, removal from office, prison, fines, disbarment and triple damages shall be applied.In other words, Marxist Democrats can not deprive a citizen of an OBVIOUS Constitutionally protected right for months and months as the desired long and costly LAWFARE punishment before overturned on appeal or a lawsuit can be brought forward to reverse the illegal ruling.In other words, The SCOTUS must act as soon as smoke from a Marxist political arsonist rises, not wait years while a citizen’s career, wealth, home or business is smoking rubble.
Perhaps the SCOTUS is silently complicit?
I agree and the system is so damned rigged and infested with so many cronies passing the buck, and even look who got to be the Democrat POTUS in 2020 “C’mon man;” (partisan criminality) which once upon a time was highly frowned upon, say like back when President Harry S. Truman said “the buck stops here.” Now America even has political prisoners like any Banana Republic Dictatorship who were absolutely set-up, entrapment!
Free the January 6th Patriots from the Democrat political prisons.
Poor good people used as political prisoner pawns!