| The Supreme Court has narrowed the scope of a federal law used to charge hundreds of people with obstructing Congress during the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, jeopardizing many of those criminal cases. The ideologically mixed 6-3 ruling Friday may force federal prosecutors to reconsider charges in dozens of pending cases, and it could require judges to resentence some defendants who have already been sent to prison for interfering with Congress' effort to certify Joe Biden's victory in the last presidential contest. About 350 of the 1,300-plus charged Jan. 6 defendants have faced obstruction charges now thrown into doubt by the court. Read the latest
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