WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday ruled in favor of a former police officer who is seeking to throw out an obstruction charge for joining the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. The justices in a 6-3 vote on nonideological lines handed a win to defendant Joseph Fischer, who is among hundreds of Jan. 6 […]
Justice Amy Coney Barrett broke ranks with the conservative majority on the Supreme Court Friday, leveraging strong words against her colleagues for their interpretation of Fischer v. United States. After the court ruled 6-3 that the Justice Department overstepped in charging hundreds of January 6 rioters with obstruction, the Trump-appointed conservative judge used her dissenting […]
U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids, a 3rd District Democrat, hailed actions 70 years ago to create the U.S. Small Business Administration. She said the federal government needs to further expand broadband access to help companies grow and prosper. (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector) TOPEKA — The lone Democrat in the Kansas congressional delegation expressed dismay Friday the U.S. […]
The Supreme Court narrowed the scope of an obstruction charge used against Jan. 6 defendants, in a 6-3 ruling authored by Chief Justice John Roberts. The case is one of two key end-of-term rulings stemming from alleged efforts to subvert the 2020 election that culminated in the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection. The other is former […]
The Supreme Court issued three more opinions on Friday, marking the first time the justices have weighed in on the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Chief Justice Roberts also announced that this coming Monday, July 1, will be the final day the court will issue opinions for this term — including the […]
John George Todd III stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. A jury of his peers in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia found the Blue Springs man guilty on six counts, including two felonies, and a judge sentenced him to five years in prison. But the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday […]
The Supreme Court has narrowed the scope of a federal law used to charge hundreds of people with obstructing Congress during the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, jeopardizing many of those criminal cases. The ideologically mixed 6-3 ruling Friday may force federal prosecutors to reconsider charges in dozens of pending cases, and […]
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Friday that federal prosecutors erred in how they charged a man for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol could affect 249 other cases against the rioters, as well as one against Donald Trump. The court found […]
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court gave a boost on Friday to a Pennsylvania man who challenged an obstruction charge brought against him concerning the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol in a ruling with potential implications for the federal criminal case against Donald Trump for trying to undo his […]
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump downplayed his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol during the first presidential debate Thursday, saying some people “asked me to go make a speech,” minimizing his involvement in efforts to overturn the election and the summoning of thousands of his followers to Washington for what […]
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump participate in the first Presidential Debate at CNN Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday. Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images Donald Trump stood up for rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, yet again on Thursday, this time from the national debate stage. When President […]
WASHINGTON — The federal judge overseeing presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump‘s Jan. 6 criminal case on Thursday sentenced a Capitol rioter who assaulted police officers to more than 4.5 years in prison. Anthony Mastanduno — known to online sleuths as “Shield Grampy” — pleaded guilty to nine criminal offenses in March, which was when Trump was […]