PITTSBURGH — A federal judge on Friday refused to dismiss a count of obstruction of an official proceeding against accused Capitol rioter Rachel Powell, saying she had joined her "almost uniformly unsuccessful fellow January 6 defendants" in trying to get that count tossed out.
"Today, this Court will add to that ocean of text by once again denying this motion to dismiss," U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled.
Powell, a Mercer County mother of eight who picked up the monikers of "pink hat lady" and "bullhorn lady" for her actions on Jan. 6, is accused of eight crimes in relation to storming the Capitol in support of then-President Donald Trump's repeated lies about the 2020 election.
