Supreme Court to Hear Jan. 6 Appeal That Could Impact Trump Case

Justice Sonia Sotomayor questioned Jeffrey Green, the attorney for Joseph Fischer, about his argument about how the statute in question, 18 U.S. Code Section 1512(c), would be applied if not in the way it was used against his client.

Justice Sotomayor asserted that there was "a very different articulation" of the law in the second clause of the statute, saying, "All I have to do is have the intent to impair by that very language, I don't have to have an actual proceeding that I've impaired on to you need an actual proceeding to impair."

Mr. Green seemed not to follow the justice's idea, saying, "I guess I'm I guess I'm a little confused, Justice Sotomayor, because as I read this, I would think that the government would say that any attempt at one is also covered by the statute."

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