I hope Roberts isn’t the swing vote. He’ll just call it a “tax”.
It’ll be the usual...Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson...6-3.
(c) Whoever corruptly —
(1) alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals 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"
Now when do we get to see the members of the Jan 6 committee charged and put in prison for not preserving video testimony....
The court may well rule in Trumps favor, buty I don’t think Margot’s reasoning is all that clear: “otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so,” might be seen to apply.
If they just throw out all charges by Jack Smith as he was illegitimately appointed, that would be great.
If the Supremes DO nullify his cases I expect the screams of “MOST POLITICAL SUPREME COURT EVER!” to be loud an proud followed almost immediately by demands to pack the court “to save our democracy!”
Under Deranged Counsel Jack Smith’s interpretation of Sarbanes-Oxley, the statute in question in the charge against Fischer and Trump and hundreds of other January 6th defendants and now convicted people, Smith has effectively criminalized Lobbying, and even any constituent who writes or calls their Congressional representative or Senator… or even petitions the government for redress during “an official proceeding.”
Trump didn’t engaging in Jan. 6 obstructed of the certification of the electoral vote he **questioned it**.
Gore did the same and the dimpled chads counting began but he’s a democrat.
Inquisitions come in handy when your party owns them.