DOJ cites Justice Jackson to defend Jan. 6 penalty for North Carolina woman

Published July 10, 2024 1:29pm ET



The Department of Justice provided a glimpse in a court filing on Tuesday night of how it will attempt to preserve Jan. 6 cases that a pivotal Supreme Court ruling last month threatened to upend.

DOJ prosecutors wrote that in the case of Tara Stottlemyer, a North Carolina farmer and mother to a one-year-old, the defendant should continue to serve her sentence for breaching the Capitol in 2021 after she argued her conviction and sentence should be vacated in light of the high court’s ruling.

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