What is also significant about each of the cases listed above is that the convictions in each case were affirmed by the federal Appeals Court — just like Joseph Fischer’s conviction was affirmed — before the convictions were reversed by the Supreme Court, and those reversals were unanimous in almost every case.

This unbroken line of decisions by the Supreme Court should have been warning enough to Biden DOJ prosecutors who decided to charge hundreds of January 6 protesters with a felony using a novel legal theory under a new statute.

Some involved in making that decision may now pay a price for having done with their jobs – and rightly so. //

Louis Rukeyser's Ghost
8 hours ago
So the previous Supreme Court rulings should have told the corrupt, political prosecutors not to do something corrupt and political? LOL. //

DaveM Louis Rukeyser's Ghost
8 hours ago edited
Don't let the Courts off the hook here. Every one of these decisions were binding on both the Appeals and Circuit Courts . And yet but one of them actually followed the precedents. //

Indylawyer DaveM
8 hours ago
Yeah, the lawyers probably looked at this case and noticed that they had a pretty good chance of winning until they got to the Supreme Court. And since that Court only takes a tiny percentage of the cases presented to it, they figured they had good odds. If the GOP had nominated someone who wanted to just put the whole J6 affair behind us, it probably would have worked. Plus it usually takes a few years for cases to get there, so they were likely successful in using this statute to force more jail time than most of the defendants would have served without it.