{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://hageman.house.gov/media/press-releases/hageman-cosigns-amicus-brief-challenging-use-obstruction-official-proceeding", "Hageman Cosigns Amicus Brief Challenging Use of \u201cObstruction of an Official Proceeding\u201d Law", "2024-02-06", "2024", "2024-02", "Republican", "House", "WY", "Harriet M. Hageman", "H001096", "hageman.house.gov", "hageman", "https://hageman.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, DC \u2013 Today, Congresswoman Harriet Hageman cosigned an Amicus Brief for Fischer v. United States, led by Senator Tom Cotton and Representative Jim Jordan, that would decide whether the D.C. Circuit Court misapplied Statute 18 U.S.C. \u00a7 1512(c)(2), the obstruction of an official proceeding law in January 6th cases.\n\nRepresentative Hageman stated, \u201cWe have seen clear evidence of the weaponization of our government against its citizens. In this case it is about manipulating statutes to prosecute political opponents.\n\n\u201cThis Amicus brief specifically argues that a financial crimes statute, which was created in response to Enron, is being misapplied as part of the weaponization of the federal government. Despite having never previously been used outside of that context, the Department of Justice has leveraged the significant prison time imposed by this statute to obtain guilty pleas from those who were present around the Capitol on January 6th.\n\n\u201cAs further evidence of the DOJ\u2019s overly broad interpretation of the statute is incorrect, I would point to the fact that they haven\u2019t brought any such cases against others who have attempted to delay or shut down Congress\u2014including the pro-Hamas protestors who \u201coccupied\u201d the Capitol buildings a few months ago, Congressman Jamal Bowman after his fire alarm scandal, or protestors at Supreme Court confirmation hearings.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T20:21:00Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://hageman.house.gov/media/press-releases/hageman-cosigns-amicus-brief-challenging-use-obstruction-official-proceeding"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8519263938069344, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}