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Supreme Court issues ruling on January 6 Capitol rioters case

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The Supreme Court on Friday made it harder to charge Capitol riot defendants with obstruction, a charge used in hundreds of prosecutions and also faced by former President Donald Trump. The justices ruled 6-3 that the charge of obstructing an official proceeding, enacted in 2002 in response to the financial scandal that brought down Enron Corp., must include proof that defendants tried to tamper with or destroy documents. Only some of the people who violently attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, fall into that category. MORE: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/nation-world/supreme-court-jan-6-decision/507-f78e450f-90fd-4a1e-9cea-0d37bd7c26eb

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