Posted on 12/21/2024 5:47:22 AM PST by CFW
Ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second White House term, judges are reportedly expressing concerns over Trump’s plans to pardon those individuals charged in connection with January 6.
US District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who oversaw the since-dismissed January 6 case from Jack Smith against Donald Trump, has reportedly had to reassure officers who were present on that day that "the rule of law still applies," however, she now says "I’m not sure I can do that very convincingly these days," per Politico.
A Trump-appointed judge has warned Trump against issuing a blanket pardon for those arrested, while an Obama-appointed judge said Wednesday that possible efforts to pardon former Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes, who is serving an 18-year prison sentence for seditious conspiracy, would be "frightening." Trump has said that he is planning to pardon those non-violent J6 offenders, not those who have committed violence against officers.
Judges have moved ahead with January 6 cases despite defendants asking for their cases to be delayed in the possibility that Trump pardons them. Politico reported that "Judges have emphasized that his pardon power has no relationship to their obligation to mete out justice, and they have ignored, in Chutkan’s words, 'whatever happens outside this courthouse door.'"
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Silent on Biden's pardons but speaking out against pardons Trump has spoken of issuing.
These judges shouldn't be offering their opinions on pardons at all.
I’d encourage that whore judge...and others...to look up “full and unconditional Presidential pardon” in the dictionary.
If they feel the need to protest they should resign in protest.
And yet pardoning hardened criminals is fine with them.
The partisan deep state judges can shove it.
I wonder what judge Juan Merchan is going to do when Trump stomped all over his gag order as POTUS? Watch for the tears.
Judge Tanya Chutkan should be very busy dealing with FBI corruption investigations and J6 will be the last thing on her mind.
And I agree...Judges should say nothing.
BTTT
Who cares what the Obama appointed White Hater Jamaican Moron and seething Trump hater thinks .
Deport her radical fat butt back to the islands where she belongs .
Judge Tanya Chutkan....So how many divisions does she have?
She needs to be part of any/all J6 investigation/s.
Screw Chutkan and the rest of them.
These judge should be removed from the bench. They are operating outside their purview and outside their jurisdiction. As judges have no authority to make such gratuitous comments.
But a fake, illegal President with dementia is OK?
Every judge who has sentenced these good people needs to be removed from the bench.
**Each case looked at individually
** Any civil rights violation should be clearly identified
** The persecutor identified and legal action taken against him for those violations.
** compensation awarded to those convicted, where violations did occur. $5,000,000 would be a good starting point.
** full pardon issued for any J6er including violent ones where such civil rights violations occurred.
but Biden can pardon anyone for anything at anytime in their lives ,LOL
Hannah Nightingale is an Inside the Beltway Reporterette who forgets that Judge Chutkan was a political judge appointed by Obama. THEY set the policy on Judicial Political bias and should have recused themselves in all actions against Trump.
This is as much about shutting down the Pelosi Gulag as it is about pardoning political prisoners. The Pelosi Gulag is America’s disgrace.
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