The federal judge presiding over the case against the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol has been one of the strongest critics of their actions. According to the narrative pushed by the mainstream media and political establishement, the Capitol Hill attack was fueled by former President Donald Trump's claims of a stolen election, a narrative that the judge has previously ruled against.
On Thursday, Trump will have his day in court before U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, a former assistant public defender and Obama-nominated justice. Known for her involvement in cases related to the January 6, 2021 riot, she has consistently handed down more severe prison sentences than what Justice Department prosecutors recommended.
Charged with federal felonies on Tuesday, Trump is accused of persistently attempting to overturn the 2020 election results in the two months leading up to his supporters' violent assault on the U.S. Capitol.
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Chutkan previously decided against Trump in a different case on January 6. She rejected his request in November 2021 to use executive privilege to prevent the disclosure of information to the U.S. House's Jan. 6 committee.
Even after President Joe Biden gave the National Archives permission to turn over the documents, she rejected his claims that he could claim privilege over them. Trump could not assert that his privilege "exists in perpetuity," she claimed in her essay. Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not the President, Chutkan noted in her decision.
At least 38 people found guilty of crimes connected to the Capitol riot have received sentences from Chutkan. According to an Associated Press analysis of court documents, all 38 received prison sentences that ranged from 10 days to more than five years.
She is one of the twenty judges who have sentenced nearly 600 defendants for their roles in the siege on January 6 in Washington, D.C. They avoided sentences that included imprisonment in more than one-third of the cases.
Usually, sentences imposed by other judges have been more lenient than those that the prosecution had asked for. However, in 19 of her 38 sentences, Chutkan has matched or exceeded the recommendations of the prosecution. Four of those cases involved prosecutors who demanded no jail time at all. According to Chutkan, the threat of a prison insurrection can be a potent deterrent.
Before imposing a sentence of more than five years in prison on a Florida man who attacked police officers in December 2021, she said, "Every day we're hearing about reports of anti-democratic factions of people plotting violence, the potential threat of violence, in 2024." That sentence was the longest ever for a case from January 6 at the time.
It must be made clear that attempting to overthrow the government violently, preventing the peaceful transfer of power, and assaulting law enforcement officers in the course of such an endeavor will result in unquestionably severe punishment, she said.
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Trump nominee Judge Trevor McFadden said during a hearing in 2021 that the Justice Department was treating those who broke into the Capitol too harshly in comparison to those detained during racial injustice demonstrations in the wake of George Floyd's 2020 murder. Days later, Chutkan criticized McFadden's suggestion without mentioning her colleague.
"Last year, protests against the brutal police killing of an unarmed man took place across the nation. During a hearing in October 2021, Chutkan stated that some of the protesters turned violent.
But to draw a false comparison between peacefully demonstrating for civil rights and violently trying to overthrow the duly elected government ignores the very real threat that the riot on January 6 posed to the very fabric of our democracy.
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Chutkan previously decided against Trump in a different case on January 6. She rejected his request in November 2021 to use executive privilege to prevent the disclosure of information to the U.S. House's Jan. 6 committee.
Even after President Joe Biden gave the National Archives permission to turn over the documents, she rejected his claims that he could claim privilege over them. Trump could not assert that his privilege "exists in perpetuity," she claimed in her essay. Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not the President, Chutkan noted in her decision.
At least 38 people found guilty of crimes connected to the Capitol riot have received sentences from Chutkan. According to an Associated Press analysis of court documents, all 38 received prison sentences that ranged from 10 days to more than five years.
She is one of the twenty judges who have sentenced nearly 600 defendants for their roles in the siege on January 6 in Washington, D.C. They avoided sentences that included imprisonment in more than one-third of the cases.
Usually, sentences imposed by other judges have been more lenient than those that the prosecution had asked for. However, in 19 of her 38 sentences, Chutkan has matched or exceeded the recommendations of the prosecution. Four of those cases involved prosecutors who demanded no jail time at all. According to Chutkan, the threat of a prison insurrection can be a potent deterrent.
Before imposing a sentence of more than five years in prison on a Florida man who attacked police officers in December 2021, she said, "Every day we're hearing about reports of anti-democratic factions of people plotting violence, the potential threat of violence, in 2024." That sentence was the longest ever for a case from January 6 at the time.
It must be made clear that attempting to overthrow the government violently, preventing the peaceful transfer of power, and assaulting law enforcement officers in the course of such an endeavor will result in unquestionably severe punishment, she said.
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Trump nominee Judge Trevor McFadden said during a hearing in 2021 that the Justice Department was treating those who broke into the Capitol too harshly in comparison to those detained during racial injustice demonstrations in the wake of George Floyd's 2020 murder. Days later, Chutkan criticized McFadden's suggestion without mentioning her colleague.
"Last year, protests against the brutal police killing of an unarmed man took place across the nation. During a hearing in October 2021, Chutkan stated that some of the protesters turned violent.
But to draw a false comparison between peacefully demonstrating for civil rights and violently trying to overthrow the duly elected government ignores the very real threat that the riot on January 6 posed to the very fabric of our democracy.
