Clarence Thomas questions Jan. 6 rioter prosecutions at Supreme Court

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Despite his wife’s backing of Donald Trump’s effort to subvert the 2020 presidential election, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has ignored calls to recuse himself from recent Jan. 6-related appeals. Perhaps it’s unsurprising, then, that his questioning Tuesday in such a case appeared to downplay the insurrection. At the oral arguments in an appeal over an obstruction law used against many Jan.

” That is, to the extent that the use of this law has been unique, that’s owing to the uniqueness of Jan. 6. The outcome of the appeal, in the case of alleged Capitol rioter Joseph Fischer, could upend scores of Jan. 6 cases prosecuted with the widely used obstruction law. Notably, that same law surfaces in two of Trump’s four counts in his federal election interference indictment.

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