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Paper Shredding Truck Spotted Outside the DOJ – Shredding Evidence Breaks Law DOJ Accused Jan 6ers of Doing

A shredding truck was spotted outside the DOJ.

There only purpose for a shredding paper is to get rid of files and documents an prevent anyone from ever having access to them.  The destruction of evidence to cover up a crime is the exact same crime that the DOJ attempted to accuse Jan 6ers of that was thrown out by the Supreme Court.

The court’s conservatives said prosecutors overstepped their authority when they relied on part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which arose from a corporate accounting scandal and made it a crime to conceal or destroy documents or other crucial evidence.

Justice Department prosecutors said that since the law also refers to obstructing an “official proceeding,” it could be read broadly to punish those who stormed the Capitol to obstruct Congress when it met in joint session on Jan. 6, 2021, to confirm President Biden’s victory.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said criminal laws should be read narrowly. “Rather than transforming this evidence-focused statute into a one-size-fits-all solution to obstruction of justice,” he said, the court read it as a law forbidding the destroying of documents. He said the government’s “novel interpretation would criminalize a broad swath of prosaic conduct, exposing activists and lobbyists alike to decades in prison.” If that view were adopted, he said, “a peaceful protester could conceivably be charged” with obstructing a proceeding and face 20 years in prison.

Now it looks like the DOJ is doing what it wrongly accused Jan 6ers of kinda doing – destroying evidence.

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