{"id":10234,"date":"2024-06-28T19:50:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T19:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2024\/06\/28\/supreme-court-makes-it-harder-to-charge-jan-6-defendants-and-trump-with-obstruction\/136172\/"},"modified":"2024-06-28T19:50:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T19:50:15","slug":"supreme-court-makes-it-harder-to-charge-jan-6-defendants-and-trump-with-obstruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/supreme-court-makes-it-harder-to-charge-jan-6-defendants-and-trump-with-obstruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court makes it harder to charge Jan. 6 defendants &#8212; and Trump &#8212; with obstruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/supreme-court-makes-it-harder-to-charge-jan-6-defendants-and-trump-with-obstruction\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Capitol_Riot_Sentencing_67040_da54a5-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/supreme-court-makes-it-harder-to-charge-jan-6-defendants-and-trump-with-obstruction.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/supreme-court-makes-it-harder-to-charge-jan-6-defendants-and-trump-with-obstruction-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-website yarpp-template-yarpp-template-inarticle-right\">\n<aside class=\"article-related right\">\n<h3>Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>By MARK SHERMAN<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Supreme Court on Friday made it harder to charge Capitol riot defendants with obstruction, a charge that also has been brought against former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The justices ruled that the charge of obstructing an official proceeding, enacted in 2002 in response to the financial scandal that brought down Enron Corp., must include proof that defendants tried to tamper with or destroy documents. Only some of the people who violently attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, fall into that category.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2024\/06\/28\/supreme-court-makes-it-harder-to-charge-capitol-riot-defendants-with-obstruction-charge-trump-faces-2\/\">Read the rest of this story on TheKnow.DenverPost.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related Articles By MARK SHERMAN WASHINGTON \u2014 The Supreme Court on Friday made it harder to charge Capitol riot defendants with obstruction, a charge that also has been brought against former President Donald Trump. The justices ruled that the charge of obstructing an official proceeding, enacted in 2002 in response to the financial scandal that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5662,2435,9,441,1,3,2524,61,1736],"tags":[5668,2436,3015,2527],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}