Posted on 02/05/2024 12:45:26 PM PST by CFW
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) and Boyden Gray PLLC filed a brief in the Supreme Court of the United States on behalf of Senator Tom Cotton, Representative Jim Jordan, and 21 other Members of Congress in support of Joseph W. Fischer, an American who was subjected to a weaponized criminal prosecution by the Biden Administration for an alleged violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2).
Mr. Fischer was indicted for his alleged participation in events around the entrance of the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021, and charged with a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2)–a statute passed in the wake of the Enron scandal. Section 1512(c)(2) criminalizes obstruction of official proceedings and carries a maximum 20-year prison sentence–which has made it a desirable statute for the Biden Administration to use to target its perceived political opponents.
Section 1512(c)(2) is buried in a statute prohibiting the destruction or interference with documents and court records. It has never previously been used outside that context. Yet the U.S. Department of Justice has used the risk of serious prison time imposed by this statute as a cudgel to compel January 6 defendants to plead guilty. DOJ has even indicted President Trump using Section 1512(c)(2), even though he was never present at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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After Trump is reelected, maybe lawyers won’t be so scared of standing up to the oligarchs.
There needs to be an alternative to the American Bar Association.
There already is!
The American Honky Tonk Bar Association. (Garth Brooks)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WljyQOvDLS4&ab_channel=SamDagger
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