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Attorney General Merrick Garland said that the recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on how "obstruction of an official proceeding" can be used in Jan. 6 charges won't have much of an impact.

MSNBC contributor and Just Security fellow Adam Klasfeld quoted Garland saying, "The vast majority of the more than 1,400 defendants charged for their illegal actions on Jan. 6 will not be affected by this decision."

Former President Donald Trump's MAGA supporters are despairing over a surprising voice of dissent in the Supreme Court's Jan. 6 ruling — a move that legal experts believe means she will rule against Trump's presidential immunity claim.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett's decision to oppose the court's ruling — which raises the bar for prosecutors to prove Jan. 6-related cases — spurred several legal experts to suggest she may rule against absolute immunity for the former president.

The U.S. Supreme Court handed a victory to some Jan. 6 defendants and demanded that prosecutors demonstrate specific evidence to show how the defendant was obstructing an official proceeding.

Fewer than 20 percent of the Jan. 6 attackers were charged with obstruction and those that were generally have other charges affiliated with it. Most of the attackers were charged with trespassing on federal property and other crimes about attacking law enforcement.

CNN host Jim Acosta cut off a supporter of Donald Trump on Friday morning when the former Trump campaign adviser refused to answer questions about the ex-president's deluge of lies in Thursday night's presidential debate.

Sitting down with conservative Bryan Lanza, Acosta confronted him with Trump making claims about Jan. 6 and abortion that were flat-out untrue only to have Lanza complain that the press is covering for Biden's poor debate performance.

"Why does Trump keep saying that Democrats want to execute babies after birth?" Acosta pressed. "That's a lie. That's not true."

"I think what you have to have the conversation with the campaign to see whether it's a lie," Lanza parried. "I think the most important thing that I walked away from the abortion conversation last night was that President Trump was proud of nominating Supreme Court justices who did overturn Roe v Wade and returned it to the states, which is where the American public has wanted it for a significant amount of time."

"Now, sure CNN can sort of cover —and MSNBC can try to sort of focus on the lies..." he continued only to have Acosta to cut him off with, "Don't go after, don't talk about the press, come on. He lied over and over again."

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As Lanza attempted to talk over the CNN anchor, Acosta continued, "No. Bryan, he said the January 6 defendants are quote 'so innocent.' Correct? These are people who are criminals."

"They stormed the Capitol. They broke the law that would've never happened had Donald Trump just accepted the results of the 2020 election. And you know that." Acosta lectured him.

"Sure, but what have the voters decided on that?" Lanza replied without answering the question. "The voters decided that is not their priority when they vote in this election."

"Republican voters decided that," Acosta corrected him.

"He's winning independent voters and he's winning the general election in swing states so all voters at this particular point made the decision that January 6 is not relevant to their lives," he attempted.

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Donald Trump hailed a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that could have major implications for one his own criminal cases Friday.

The court ruled 6-3 in favor of former police officer Joseph Fischer, who was among hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants — including the former president — who have been charged with obstructing an official proceeding for their effort to prevent the congressional certification of President Joe Biden's election win.

A Supreme Court ruling that makes it more difficult to prosecute rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was met with outrage on the left and cheers of celebration from the MAGA right Friday morning.

"This is a big win for Trump," replied Fox News pundit Jonathan Turley. "It knocks out a substantial part of the case of Jack Smith against the former president."

In a landmark case, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the so-called Chevron doctrine would be overturned.

It is a 40-year standard that the conservative court eliminated with a 6-2 decision, in which Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recused herself.

The morning after President Joe Biden turned in a poor performance in the first 2024 presidential debate, Meghan McCain tried to pin the blame on First Lady Jill Biden.

McCain, who quit ABC's "The View" where she was often at odds with her co-hosts and just as often derided for her opinions, spent Thursday evening live tweeting the debate, at one-time writing, "Our country is on the precipice of an absolute crisis and democrats [sic] aren’t going to be able to just shriek and point at Trump this time," before later adding, "I have been shunned, called a traitor to my family, disinvited places because I kept sounding the alarm Joe Biden is too old to be President. I will never forgive the media and DNC propagandists for putting Americans in this position and signaling to our enemies how weak we are."

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday issued a ruling that could upend hundreds of January 6th-related cases.

In the ruling, the court ordered that prosecutors who charged rioters with obstructing or impeding an official proceeding must show that they tampered with physical evidence in order to meet the criteria met by the statute.

The Supreme Court ruled Friday on two pivotal cases that strip federal agencies of substantial power to interpret the law.

Supreme Court Justices issued rulings in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless v. Department of Commerce — both challenges to a decades-old precedent that says courts must defer to government agencies’s interpretation of statutes.

The U.S. Supreme Court voted 6-3 to allow an Oregon city to target homeless people for sleeping on public property.

The ruling handed down Friday overturns a 2022 decision by 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, with the court's conservatives finding that the measures enacted by Grants Pass city officials do not violate the Constitution's Eighth Amendment banning cruel and unusual punishment, reported NBC News.

House GOP leadership is the focus of ire on both sides of the political aisle after efforts to pass a much-sought internet privacy bill imploded "in spectacular fashion," the Washington Post reported Friday.

Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise earlier this week warned Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers away from pursuing her bill to rein in Silicon Valley in the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro on Friday took a shot at CNN for not doing more to counter the slew of falsehoods spouted by former President Donald Trump in real time.

During an interview with CNN's John Berman, Shapiro was asked repeatedly if he still had confidence in President Joe Biden after his widely criticized debate performance on Thursday night.