Kelly’s ruling is particularly important because, as Marcy Wheeler explains , it will be determinative for a much larger number of cases: “All defendants charged with obstruction have been waiting for these opinions,” she writes. “But as it happens, almost two dozen people currently or potentially charged with obstruction will be covered by this opinion.” It also was a kind of double whammy for the defendants, ruling out not just the attempts to appeal the use of Section 1512—a law passed in 2002 , primarily used for prosecuting witness tampering—against the insurrectionists, but also for their attempts to claim that...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
