District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Wednesday denied a request by former President Donald Trump’s legal team to recuse herself from his 2020 election interference trial in Washington. Lawyers for…
Lawyers for the 77-year-old former president had argued that statements made by Chutkan while presiding over the trials of defendants who stormed the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 are “disqualifying” and would “taint” the proceedings against Trump.
In their motion for recusal, Trump’s attorneys cited Chutkan’s remarks during the October 2022 sentencing of convicted Capitol rioter Christine Priola, accusing the judge of implying that the former president should be behind bars for his actions on the day of the riot. AP The defense team also pointed to a statement made by the Jamaican-born judge in December 2021, during a hearing for Robert Palmer, who attacked police officers at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, arguing that it referred to Trump.
“[T]he court expressly declined to state who, if anyone, it thought should still face charges,” Chutkan wrote. “It is the defense, not the court, who has assumed that the Defendant belongs in that undefined group.
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