Today, U.S. Congressman Matt Gaetz (FL-01) will introduce a resolution to censure and condemn United States District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan, the judge presiding over President Donald Trump’s case in Washington, D.C., for showing open bias and partisanship in her official duties on the bench.
President Barack Obama appointed Tanya Chutkan as a district judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia after donating thousands of dollars to get him elected.
During her time on the bench, Judge Chutkan has inappropriately expressed support for violent protests that occurred in the summer of 2020 while handing down multiple tough sentences to non-violent January 6th defendants.
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“It is deeply concerning that a United States District Court judge would exhibit such blatant political bias from the bench. Judge Tanya Chutkan’s extreme sentencing of January 6th defendants, while openly supporting the violent Black Lives Matter riots of 2020, showcases a complete disregard for her duty of impartiality and the rule of law. Justice may be blind, but the American people are not – we see Judge Chutkan for her actions, and we rebuke them in the greatest possible sense,” said Gaetz said.
During a sentencing hearing in October 2022, she inappropriately lamented that President Donald Trump “remains free to this day” when Chutkan disagreed with a comparison made between the Capitol riot and the protests after George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis.
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“People gathered all over the country last year to protest the violent murder by the police of an unarmed man … to compare the actions of people protesting, mostly peacefully, for civil rights to those of a violent mob seeking to overthrow the lawfully elected government is a false equivalency and ignores a very real danger that the Jan. 6 riot posed to the foundation of our democracy,” Gaetz cited Chutkan as saying.
Judge Chutkan expressed support for the violent protests in the summer of 2020 and is conduct unbecoming a judge, Gaetz says in the resolution.
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