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Supreme Court limits scope of obstruction law used in Jan. 6 prosecutions

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 […]