 there were hundreds of january 6 defendants charged with this particular subset of this federal statute essentially what it did was elevate a lot of these cases from misdemeanors to felonies by including it with some misdemeanor charges it now means that hundreds of j6 defendants including president trump will have an avenue to go try to fight those and say that part of my case needs to be thrown out the court said that the way it was applied in those cases has been flawed