The Supreme Court struggled Tuesday with the government’s case against 350 defendants from the Jan. 6‚ 2021‚ protest at the U.S. Capitol‚ with justices pondering how a law written in the aftermath of the Enron document-shredding scandal could be applied to those who delayed the certification of the 2020 presidential election. The law criminalizes obstructing or impeding an official proceeding. The Biden administration says it goes beyond courtrooms and criminal investigations and covers...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas faced criticism on Tuesday over comments he made during a case focused on the January 6‚ 2021‚ riot at the Capitol. &;quot;In oral argument today‚ Justice Thomas is minimizing the severity of the 1/6 insurrection at the Capitol. Perhaps that's because his wife was part of the conspiracy. What a disgrace that he's sitting on this case‚&;quot; lawyer and former CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin wrote on X‚ formerly Twitter. Thomas made comments on Tuesday as the...

The Supreme Court seemed wary on Tuesday of letting prosecutors use a federal obstruction law to charge hundreds of rioters involved in the Capitol attack on Jan. 6‚ 2021. A decision rejecting the government’s interpretation of the law could not only disrupt those prosecutions but also eliminate two of the federal charges against former President Donald J. Trump in the case accusing him of plotting to subvert the 2020 election. Mr. Trump’s case did not come up at the argument‚ which was...

Did President Joe Biden receive advance warning of Iran’s strike against Israel&;#63; Reuters is reporting that &;quot;Iraqi‚ Turkish and Jordanian officials each said Iran had provided early warning of the attack last week‚ including some details.&;quot; They further reported that Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said on Sunday that &;quot;Iran gave neighbouring countries and Israel's ally the United States 72 hours' notice it would launch the strikes‚&;quot; according to Reuters.   U.S....

Although congressional Republicans were quick to criticize President Joe Biden’s response to Iran’s drone attack on Israel‚ most have resisted calling for the U.S. to respond militarily—indicating support for a wider attack on Iran‚ and U.S. involvement in it‚ may be weak. After the attack began on Saturday‚ Sen. Marsha Blackburn‚ R-Tenn.‚ said the U.S. “must move quickly and launch aggressive retaliatory strikes on Iran”—one of only a few GOP leaders to advocate a direct attack against the...

John Bolton has called for Israel to respond to Iran’s massive‚ failed weekend missile barrage by destroying its nuclear fuel facilities. In one sense‚ that’s no surprise; the former US national security adviser has rarely seen a problem he didn’t think could be bombed into submission. Yet he’s far from alone in believing Tehran’s decision to openly attack Israel has presented a rare window for decisive action to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power‚ and all that’s needed is the will to...

The Biden administration is expected to deny permission for a 211-mile industrial road through fragile Alaskan wilderness to a large copper deposit‚ handing a victory to environmentalists in an election year when the president wants to underscore his credentials as a climate leader and conservationist. The Interior Department intends to announce as early as this week that there should be “no action” on the federal land where the road known as the Ambler Access Project would be built‚...