Supreme Court rules in favor of Jan. 6 Capitol riot participant who challenged obstruction conviction
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The Supreme Court issued a ruling in the case of a January 6 Capitol riot participant who challenged his criminal conviction for obstruction.
Brianna Herlihy is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
The ruling reverses a lower court decision, which the high court said swept too broadly into areas like peaceful but disruptive conduct, and returns the case to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, who will have the opportunity to reassess the case with Friday's ruling in mind.
The case stems from a lawsuit filed by Joseph Fischer — one of more than 300 people charged by the Justice Department with "obstruction of an official proceeding" in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. His lawyers argued that the federal statute should not apply, and that it had only ever been applied to evidence-tampering cases.
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