Jan. 6 Defendant Questions Government’s Legal Theory in New Supreme Court Filing

Published on March 29, 2024

A former police officer charged after he entered the U.S. Capitol for four minutes on Jan. 6, 2021, attacked the legal theory underpinning the government’s case against him in a new filing with the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case in mid-April. Joseph W. Fischer, from Jonestown, Pennsylvania, was indicted on several counts following the Capitol breach on Jan. 6, including obstructing an official proceeding under Enron-era obstruction law 18 U.S. Code Section 1512(c). The charge relates to the obstruction of the congressional certification of the 2020 presidential election results, a proceeding that paved the way for the inauguration of President Joe Biden two weeks later....

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