Acting US Attorney for DC Ed Martin, is expanding his inquiry into former US Attorney Matthew Graves’ prosecutions of more than 1,500 January 6 protestors.
Ed Martin is specifically probing Graves’ abuse of the 1512(c)(2) obstruction charge.
Biden’s corrupt DOJ charged more than 300 J6ers with 18 USC §1512(c)(2). Additionally, two of the four charges against Trump in Jack Smith’s DC case were conspiracy to obstruct.
Then-US Attorney for DC, Matthew Graves, arrested and charged thousands of non-violent J6ers who didn’t even enter the Capitol building. He also threatened to seek more prison time for J6 defendants if the Supreme Court reversed the obstruction count.
“Indeed, at any resentencing, the Court could apply an upward departure for “significant disruption of a governmental function”…” Matthew Graves said last March.
Last June, the US Supreme Court delivered a devastating blow to Biden’s corrupt Justice Department and overturned the obstruction charge used to jail hundreds of January 6 defendants.
The Supreme Court last year heard oral arguments in Fischer v. United States and at issue was statute 18 USC §1512(c)(2):
Whoever corruptly—
(1) 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; or
(2) otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
In a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court held that to prove a violation of the law, the government must show that the defendant impaired the availability or integrity for use in an official proceeding of records, documents, objects, or other things used in an official proceeding, or attempted to do so.
“To prove a violation of Section 1512(c)(2), the Government must establish that the defendant impaired the availability or integrity for use in an official proceeding of rec-ords, documents, objects, or as we earlier explained, other things used in the proceeding, or attempted to do so. See supra, at 9. The judgment of the D. C. Circuit is therefore vacated, and the case is remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion. On remand, the D. C. Circuit may assess the sufficiency of Count Three of Fischer’s indictment in light of our interpretation of Section 1512(c)(2),” the opinion reads.
Matthew Graves continued to threaten J6ers with additional felony charges after the Supreme Court overturned the obstruction charge.
Ed Martin, who is currently under attack from Democrat Senator Adam Schiff, is expanding his investigation and has reportedly looking into who ordered the obstruction charges.
Politico reported:
The Trump administration’s top prosecutor in Washington, D.C., told staff Friday he is expanding an investigation into the decision by the Justice Department to level felony obstruction charges against hundreds of people who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin, a vocal advocate for those defendants before President Donald Trump appointed him, called the decision the “greatest failure of legal judgment” since Japanese internment during World War II, according to an internal email reviewed by POLITICO.
“We have contacted lawyers, staff and judges about this — and sought their feedback,” Martin said in the Friday morning “Dear Colleague” email, adding “We continue to look at who ordered the [obstruction charges] and why.”
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