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On Jan. 6, 2021, Joseph Fischer allegedly entered the U.S. Capitol, along with more than 2,000 others, in the effort to stop the counting of the electoral votes that was already underway.
Later identified by one of his coworkers, Fischer was arrested by federal officers on Feb. 19, 2021. He was charged with multiple felonies, but has still yet to go to trial. That’s because he’s appealed one of his charges all the way to the Supreme Court, which will hear arguments on April 16. The main points of contention that emerged in lower courts were how the word “otherwise” should be defined, and how it connects the first subsection to the second.
disagreed. That ruling determined that the word “otherwise” should instead be defined by the “the commonplace, dictionary meaning” as “in a different manner” and, therefore, the “obstruction” prohibited by law does not refer solely to document-related crimes.
If his charge for obstructing an official proceeding were to be dismissed, however, that would not affect the other three charges Trump faces in the federal case, which is being brought by special prosecutor Jack Smith.
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