Appeals Court hands major victory to DOJ in latest January 6 ruling: report

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday that all participants in the January 6, 2021 siege of the U.S. Capitol can be charged with disorderly or disruptive conduct — even if they were personally not destroying property or acting violently. , the D.C. appellate court's ruling is a big win for the U.S. Department of Justice, which had assigned that charge to nearly all of the 1,200-plus defendants in its ongoing prosecution of the deadly insurrection. The three-judge panel specifically struck down rioters' arguments that merely being present...