Trump’s election-interference case may get boost from US supreme court

High court to consider whether obstruction statute is too broad to be used in connection with January 6 attack

A decision by the US supreme court to take a case linked to the January 6 attack on the Capitol could have consequences altering the trajectory of the criminal case against Donald Trump over his effort to overturn the 2020 election as well as for hundreds of other people prosecuted for the riot.

The nation's highest court has agreed to consider whether federal prosecutors can charge January 6 riot defendants with a statute that makes it a crime to obstruct an official proceeding of Congress - a charge also filed against Trump in his 2020 election-interference case.