r/facepalm • u/Loud-Ad-2280 • 6d ago

Yeah they probably should have been charged with treason not just obstruction 🇵​🇷​🇴​🇹​🇪​🇸​🇹​

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u/Chaosrealm69 6d ago edited 6d ago

They caused the session of Congress to be disrupted by their attack on the building, requiring Congress members to leave to safer locations, and the Supreme Court says that charging them with obstruction of an official proceeding is wrong?

But because the SCOTUS narrowly looked at the law used, and thought it was specifically meant to charge for destruction of evidence alone, they decided that it didn't apply to the Jan 6th insurrectionists.

Edit: missed the last part of the thought I was posting.

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u/Responsible-Lemon257 6d ago

They were charged under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act which is for corporate finance and record keeping crimes.