Supreme Court to Hear Appeal of Indictment of January 6th Defendant on Key Claim of "Obstructing an Official Act"

Federal prosecutors have been using this very vague federal law to lock people up left and right, and one man is challenging the law's application on the grounds of impermissible vagueness.

It is a bedrock principle of constitutional and criminal law that citizens have a right to know what the law actually is. It should be readily discoverable, if someone goes looking. They should not have to guess, and it should not be so malleable that prosecutors may claim it means whatever they may wish it to mean retroactively.

Making this challenge even more salient: the Very Special Counsel in the Trump prosecution, Jack Smith, is prosecuting Trump under this same silly-putty interpretation of the same vague clause.

GRTWT.