EXCLUSIVE: Jan. 6 Prisoner Takes His Obstruction Charge to the Supreme Court

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‘The federal government has effectively declared a jihad, or a holy war, on everyone within sight of Jan. 6,’ attorney says

In a historic move, a Jan. 6 prisoner has taken his challenge of the infamous obstruction charge, levied against him and hundreds of other Jan. 6 prisoners and defendants, all the way to the Supreme Court.

On July 7, attorneys for Jan. 6 prisoner Edward Jacob (Jake) Lang filed a document with the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) challenging the governmentโ€™s obstruction of Congress chargeโ€”one of the most common felony charges used against Jan. 6 defendantsโ€”which carries up to a 20-year prison sentence.

โ€œWe filed whatโ€™s called a writ of certiorari, or a request to the Supreme Court to hear an issue,โ€ Norm Pattis, lead attorney for Mr. Lang, told The Epoch Times. Mr. Pattis explained that the legal team is asking the high court to review the details behind Mr. Langโ€™s alleged violation of Title 18 U.S. Code Section 1512(c)(2), one of the 11 charges against him, according to court documents (pdf).

According to the writ, obtained exclusively by The Epoch Times (pdf), โ€œMr. Lang filed a motion to dismiss the Section 1512 count prior to trial. The District Court granted his motion.โ€

However, โ€œon a consolidated interlocutory appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit joined by two similarly situated codefendants, the Court, in a split decision, reversed the District Court. A motion for rehearing was denied.โ€

The โ€œquestion presented for reviewโ€ is โ€œWhether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding that application of 18 U.S.C. Section 1512(c)(2), a statute crafted to prevent tampering with evidence in โ€˜official proceedings,โ€™ can be used to prosecute acts of violence against police officers in the context of a public demonstration that turned into a riot, resulting in so โ€˜breathtakingโ€™ an application of the statute as to run afoul of Van Buren v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1648 (2021).โ€

Byย Patricia Tolson

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