Supreme Court Schedules Jan. 6 Defendant’s Hearing

Published on February 16, 2024

The Supreme Court will hear the closely watched case of a Jan. 6 defendant on April 16, the court announced on Feb. 16. The case could lead to the dropping of charges against many defendants charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, protest of the impending congressional certification of the 2020 presidential election results at the U.S. Capitol complex in Washington. Former police officer Joseph W. Fischer of Jonestown, Pennsylvania, is the main defendant in the case known as Fischer v. United States. The oral argument was scheduled in a notice posted by the court on its website. Legal experts previously told The Epoch Times they believe the nation’s highest court may strike down the use of a key federal law in the Biden administration’s ongoing prosecutions of Jan. 6 defendants and in the process shut down the government’s case against hundreds of defendants....

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