The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the Justice Department had improperly wielded a federal obstruction law in prosecuting hundreds of people for their roles in the January 6 attack on Congress. The court’s decision focused on the DOJ’s use of a statute—enacted in 2002 after the Enron accounting scandal—that prohibits obstructing a federal proceeding.

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