SCOTUS RULING

On Friday June 21, 2024 The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a former police officer who is seeking to throw out an obstruction charge as a result of the events of January 6, 2021.

The justices in a 6-3 voted to overturn the 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2) charge and handed a win to defendant Joseph Fischer, who is among hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants — including former President Donald Trump — who have been charged with obstructing an official proceeding over the effort to prevent Congress' certification of President Joe Biden’s election victory.

The court concluded that the law, enacted in 2002 as part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act after the Enron accounting scandal, was only intended to apply to more limited circumstances involving forms of evidence tampering, not the much broader array of situations that prosecutors had claimed it covered.

The provision targets anyone who "obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so," but the court determined that its scope is limited by a preceding sentence in the statute referring to altering or destroying records.

Are you one of the approximately 250 January 6th Defendants that have been arrested, charged, detained or incarcerated due to the incorrectly implemented charge?

Personal Statement and Consent to Join Lawsuit

I affirm that I am a January 6th defendant with an ongoing or concluded trial that involved being charged with 18 U.S.C. § 1512. After being arrested, charged, detained or imprisoned as a result of this charge, I give my consent to be joined to this lawsuit and agree to representation by attorney Stephanie Lambert. 

I duly swear these statements to be truthful

Signed - J6 Defendant