Supreme Court Backs Jan. 6 Defendant, Curbing Enron Law Use

The US Supreme Court sided with a Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendant in a ruling that could affect hundreds of prosecutions, including the criminal case in Washington against former President Donald Trump. Voting 6-3, the justices limited the Justice Department’s use of a 2002 law that makes it a crime to obstruct an official proceeding. The majority said that law, enacted in response to the Enron Corp. collapse, is designed to protect documents and other records and wouldn’t apply simply to the act of trying to stop a congressional proceeding. Given that the law was “enacted to address the Enron disaster, not some further flung set of dangers, it is unlikely that Congress responded with such an unfocused and grossly incommensurate patch,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority. Read more: www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-28/supreme… -------- Subscribe to our YouTube channel: trib.al/KM4k5RA Subscribe to Bloomberg Originals: trib.al/dJv9Uw8 Bloomberg Quicktake brings you global social video spanning business, technology, politics and culture. Make sense of the stories changing your business and your world. Connect with us on… YouTube: youtube.com/user/Bloomberg Breaking News on YouTube: youtube.com/@BloombergQuicktakeNow