Supreme Court Could Help Trump In Jan 6 Obstruction Case
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🗓️ 16 April 2024
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Summary
The Supreme Court hears arguments today in a major case related to the January 6th Insurrection that has the potential to undo some of the charges former President Donald Trump faces. The case looks at whether the Justice Department was right to charge some of the people who stormed the Capitol that day with the crime of obstructing an official proceeding. The case has the potential to upend hundreds of prosecutions tied to the riot, and knock out two of the four charges Trump is facing in his federal insurrection case. Leah Litman, co-host of Crooked’s legal podcast ‘Strict Scrutiny,’ breaks down the case for us.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, April 16th. I'm Josie Duffy Rice. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'm Travel Anderson, and this is what a day, |
| 0:12.0 | where the iPhone is still king. I mean |
| 0:14.8 | Samsung took back the crown as a top selling smartphone company in the world |
| 0:19.0 | but that's just one sales quarter. Listen the attack of of the green bubbles, they're coming for us, Josie. |
| 0:25.0 | They are... I don't like it. |
| 0:27.0 | On today's show, the FBI is investigating the bridge collapse in Baltimore, |
| 0:35.7 | plus the women's NCAA stars we love are now on WNA teams. |
| 0:41.2 | But first, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments today in a major case related to the January 6th insurrection. |
| 0:47.0 | It's a case that could undo some of the charges former President Donald Trump faces, depending on how the justices rule. |
| 0:53.8 | The case involves one of the riders, a former police officer from Pennsylvania, Joseph Fisher. |
| 0:58.6 | The Justice Department charged Fisher with a long list of offenses, including assaulting a police officer, unlawfully |
| 1:04.8 | entering the capital grounds, and obstruction of an official proceeding. |
| 1:08.9 | And it's that last charge, obstruction of an official proceeding, that Fisher wants the Supreme Court justices |
| 1:14.6 | to toss out. |
| 1:16.3 | And the stakes in this case are high. |
| 1:18.2 | Two of the four charges Trump is facing in his federal January 6th case also deal with that same part of this law called |
| 1:23.7 | Surbanes Oxley. More than a hundred riders have already been convicted and |
| 1:27.8 | sentenced under it so far. So if the justices decide to toss out that charge for |
| 1:32.2 | Fisher, it could end the federal |
| 1:34.3 | government's push to prosecute the other capital riders. |
| 1:37.3 | Okay, but why would storming the capital during the certification of a presidential election not be obstructing |
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