Justice Amy Coney Barrett dissented in a major ruling that sided with a defendant who challenged an obstruction charge brought against hundreds of other defendants in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, meanwhile, joined the majority opinion offered by Chief Justice John Roberts, but wrote her own concurring opinion.
Justice Roberts wrote that the law barring obstruction of an official proceeding is more limited than federal prosecutors asserted.
The law bars people from altering, destroying, mutilating, or concealing “a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding” and “otherwise obstruct[ing], influenc[ing], or imped[ing] any official proceeding or attempts to do so.” […]
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