Two legal cases involving January 6 and Donald Trump collided today, and the result is that the March 4, 2024, trial date in the criminal matter filed against him in the District of Columbia has now been stayed pending the resolution of one or more cases likely to be heard by the Supreme Court of the United States in the spring of 2024.
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As RedState reported, Wednesday morning the Supreme Court issued an order stating that it would take up an appeal from a January 6 prosecution involving the Department of Justice’s use of an obstruction statute in charging protesters with “corruptly obstructing an official proceeding” under 18 U.S.C. Section 1512(c). Two of the four counts in the indictment filed against Trump are based on Section 1512, and if the Supreme Court finds in favor of the defendant in…
