 The question at the court, could it be used against those storming the Capitol who were trying to obstruct the certification of the 2020 election? The court's answer, no. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the conservatives and liberal justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, ruling that prosecutors went too far and cannot transform this evidence-focused statute into a one-size-fits-all solution to obstruction of justice, adding that prosecutors must prove a defendant somehow tampered with documentary evidence.