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In Her Jan. 6 Courtroom, Judge Who Will Hear Trump’s Case Is the Pot Calling the Defendant Incendiary | RealClearInvestigations

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. 

A review of thousands of pages of hearing transcripts reveal that Chutkan has repeatedly expressed strong and settled opinions about the issues at the heart of United States v. Donald Trump the criminal case she is now presiding over.  

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. 

via www.realclearinvestigations.com

A politically biased judge in the District of Columbia. Who woulda thunk it?