Jury selection in the first of the Jan. 6-related criminal trials began on Feb. 28 in U.S. District Court in Washington, after a coalition of media organizations challenged Judge Dabney L. Friedrich’s ruling that media wouldn’t be allowed in the courtroom for the trial of Guy W. Reffitt.
Reffitt, 49, of Wylie, Texas, is charged with entering and remaining in a restricted building while armed with a dangerous weapon, civil disorder, obstruction of an official proceeding, obstruction of U.S. Capitol Police officers, and obstruction of justice for allegedly threatening to shoot his children if they turned him in to the FBI.
