Tough-On-Rioters Federal Judge Gets Trump’s Case

The Associated Press reports:

The federal judge assigned to the election fraud case against former President Donald Trump has stood out as one of the toughest punishers of rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attack fueled by Trump’s baseless claims of a stolen election. She has also ruled against him before.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, a former assistant public defender who was nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama, will oversee the case accusing Trump of trying to overturn his 2020 election loss in the two months leading up to the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters.

Chutkan has often has handed down prison sentences in Jan. 6, 2021, riot cases that are harsher than Justice Department prosecutors recommended.

Read the full article. Chutkan was assigned randomly.

“In a memorable line from her ruling, Chutkan wrote, ‘Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.’” https://t.co/5a3IQ4cAKW

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