Julie Kelly has long been one of the best reporters on J6. Now she takes up the subject of Tanya S. Chutkin, the judge presiding over Trump’s DC case.
An excerpt:
But even as she warns Trump about his “inflammatory” language, Chutkan has routinely issued politically charged rulings and made incendiary statements of her own while presiding over some 30 cases involving Trump supporters charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, melee at the U.S. Capitol. …
These include her public assertions that the 2020 election was beyond reproach, that the Jan. 6 protests were orchestrated by Trump, and that the former president is guilty of crimes. She has described Jan. 6 as a “mob attack” on “the very foundation of our democracy” and branded the issue at the heart of the case she is hearing – Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was stolen – a conspiracy theory.
Although judges often make comments from the bench, Chutkan’s strident language raises questions about her impartiality in handling the case against the presumptive GOP nominee for president in 2024.
I suppose you could say it “raises questions.” But I think it actually answers them. This is an exceptionally biased judge, and she has been given a lot of power to interfere with the 2024 election.
And there’s very little chance of changing that, because there is still a presumption in favor of judges’ impartiality:
GOP Rep. Matthew Gaetz of Florida recently filed a resolution to condemn and censure Chutkan for exhibiting “open bias and partisanship in the conduct of her official duties as a judge.”
But if the aim among Trump loyalists is to get a new judge assigned to the case, it’s a steep legal hurdle. Stephen Gillers, a professor of law at New York University, said that typically a judge can be recused for bias or the appearance of bias “only when the purported bias comes from a source outside the judge’s work as a judge.” He continued, “Almost never will a judge be recused for opinions she forms as a judge – in hearing cases and motions. Judges are expected to form opinions based on these?’intrajudicial’ sources. It’s what judges do.
Judge Churkin was appointed by Obama in 2013. No surprise there. He knew exactly what he was doing in making sure DC would be a fertile venue for bringing political federal cases against the enemies of the left.
NOTE: Much much more at the link.
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