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SUPREME COURT DIVIDED OVER KEY CHARGE AGAINST JAN. 6 RIOTERS AND TRUMP


CONSERVATIVES INCLUDING JUSTICES NEIL M. GORSUCH AND SAMUEL A. ALITO JR.
EXPRESSED CONCERN ABOUT GIVING PROSECUTORS TOO MUCH POWER

By Ann E. Marimow
Updated April 16, 2024 at 5:47 p.m. EDT|Published April 16, 2024 at 4:22 p.m.
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Rioters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. (John
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The Supreme Court appeared deeply divided Tuesday over whether prosecutors
improperly stretched federal law to charge hundreds of participants in the Jan.
6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, a decision that will impact those rioters and,
potentially, Donald Trump’s election interference trial in D.C.


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The court’s conservatives, who make up a majority on the nine-member bench,
appeared most skeptical of the government’s decision to charge participants
under a law that makes it a crime to obstruct or impede an official proceeding —
in this case the joint session of Congress that convened to formally certify Joe
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