The Department of Justice is showing signs of how it might attempt to overcome the fresh set of challenges it is facing in the wake of a recent Supreme Court decision that favored dozens of Jan. 6 defendants, including former President Donald Trump.

Over the past week, the DOJ began asking judges in Washington, D.C., for one or two months of extra time to weigh the impact of Fischer v. United States on some of its cases related to the 2021 breach.