In a court filing Monday, Trump's lawyers argued that past statements from Judge Tanya S. Chutkan warrant her removal from the case.
Lawyers for former President Trump on Monday demanded the recusal of the federal judge presiding over his 2020 election subversion case, saying her past comments about the Jan. 6 insurrection undermine public confidence in her neutrality.In a, Trump’s attorneys argued that U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan’s past “negative” comments in other cases involving the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol “unavoidably taint” the case.
“Although Judge Chutkan may genuinely intend to give President Trump a fair trial — and may believe that she can do so — her public statements unavoidably taint these proceedings, regardless of outcome,” the filing states. Special counsel Jack Smith charged Trump with four criminal counts related to engaging in conspiracies to overturn the results of the 2020 election and keep him in power. Trump has pleaded not guilty.The motion cites two statements Chutkan made from the bench while sentencing two previous Jan. 6 defendants that appear to reference Trump but do not name him. The motion describes the remarks as a “prejudgment” of Trump’s guilt.
In one, from the October 2022 case of Christine Priola of Ohio, Chutkan rebuked the defendant and other Jan. 6 rioters for offering “a blind loyalty to one person who, by the way, remains free to this day.”Trump’s lawyers also cited in their filing a comment Chutkan made at the December 2021 sentencing of Robert Palmer of Florida in which she said he “made a very good point” that the people who encouraged rioters to go to the Capitol had not been charged.
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