 Writing for the court majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said that the statute making it a crime to obstruct an official proceeding was aimed at document destruction and witness tampering, not an event like the January 6th riot. Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the dissent for herself and Justices Sotomayor and Kagan. Why can't rioters be charged for obstructing an official proceeding, she asked, when the defendant in this case not only invaded the Capitol but engaged in a physical confrontation with law enforcement?