Supreme Court to hear challenge to law used against Trump, Capitol rioters

The US Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to hear a challenge to the use of a law behind one of the charges lodged against former president Donald Trump and hundreds of his supporters who took part in the 2021 attack on the Capitol.A District Court judge, a Trump appointee, agreed to throw out the obstruction charge on the grounds that the law was intended to prosecute financial crimes following the Enron scandal and did not apply to Fischer's conduct on January 6.