The US Supreme Court on Friday ruled 6 to 3 in favor of a Capitol insurrection defendant by narrowing the scope of the obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress law to the letter of whether they used an official document to do so when. Obviously since the rioters were beating cops with their weapons and fists rather than official documents they were not in violation of the statute passed in the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act. It’s not clear how many January 6th cases are going to be affected by this and/or if some will walk completely but it is a limitation on the cases.
There had been some chatter over whether this would negatively affect Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s conspiracy case against the Orange Tyrant in DC – which by the way the court did not drop its decision for on Friday, of course – but it would seem sort of doubtful given that Trump did in fact engage in conduct that “alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding” with the fake electoral votes scam.