Supreme Court: Justice for January 6 Protesters
In the Fischer v. United States case decided on June 28, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the Department of Justice used an irrelevant law to prosecute Americans who protested the 2020 election at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Joseph Fischer attended the rally that day and entered the Capitol building around 3:25 p.m., after Congress had gone into recess. The Department of Justice charged Fischer and more than 300 other protesters with “obstruction of an official proceeding” under the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a law passed in response to Enron Corp. employees’ destruction of evidence of accounting fraud. The possible sentence was up to 20 years in prison.
The Supreme Court’s majority opinion held that the Department of Justice applied the statutes of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act far too broadly. Since the protesters merely trespassed on Capitol grounds—many of them after Congress had gone into recess—and destroyed no records or documents, they should have never been charged under this law.
This ruling also favors Donald Trump. Department of Justice Special Prosecutor Jack Smith convinced a grand jury to indict Trump on four charges relating to January 6, two of which cite the same statutes used in Sarbanes-Oxley. But if Fischer and the other protesters should have never been charged with “obstruction of an official proceeding,” then the same is true for Trump. This ruling drastically weakens Smith’s case and exposes how leftists in the government have twisted the law to keep Trump out of the presidency.
As many conservatives have noted, on January 6, the only way President Trump could expose what had happened in the 2020 presidential election was for the “official proceeding” of congressional certification, as provided for by law, to continue undisturbed while representatives and senators introduced and debated the evidence of election fraud. The riot at the Capitol was not intended to keep Trump in the presidency, but to force him out. The only ones who benefited from the chaos at the Capitol were radical leftists trying to keep evidence of election fraud from being uncovered. This is the real reason prosecutors like Jack Smith keep going after the January 6 protesters. This case gives Trump a chance to win reelection and finish the election fraud investigations he started.
