Supreme Court seems ready to rewrite the law covering Jan. 6 obstruction charges [Video]

Tuesday, 16th, I listened to the Supreme Court session concerning the DOJ’s obstruction charges against the January 6th defendants. A number of the judges are originalists and many questions concerned the wording of the second part of the law which was used by the DOJ to justify the charge of “obstruction”.

The first part of the law pertains to “documents”. The second part, as written, could pertain to anything affecting any official proceeding. By the end of the hearing, it seemed that the court will rule against the DOJ.

Later that evening on the Lawrence O’Donnell program on MSNBC a man who had helped write the law said the intent of the second part was to cover all bases that the writers had not thought of or might come up in the future, say January 6th. At that point, I realized that the justices or their aides could have contacted many people to find out the original intent of the second part. It seems …