The Judge Assigned to Trump's January 6th Indictment Is Going to Be a Nightmare

Once again, the political world has been engulfed by another indictment of Donald Trump, this time surrounding his alleged actions involving January 6th.

The details include four different counts, including two counts of conspiracy and two counts of obstruction. Those four counts break down specifically to Trump allegedly attempting to obstruct an official proceeding, which has to do with January 6th, while the conspiracy charges appear to center on the supposed alternate electors scheme.

Obviously, arguments about selective prosecution and weaponization of the DOJ will be at the forefront for political circles, but even on legal grounds, this indictment appears to be far weaker than the one charging that Trump mishandled classified documents and conspired to obstruct the investigation into the matter. Specifically, counts two and three sure seem like “disinformation” is being criminalized.

Regardless, putting even the legal arguments aside, one thing is certain: The judge assigned to this case is going to be a nightmare.

Judge Tanya S. Chutkan has handled dozens of cases related to January 6th, and she has built a reputation as being the harshest arbiter in the game. For example, she has given higher sentences than recommended by the government in nine different January 6th cases and has matched government recommendations in 14 others. She has handled 31 January 6th cases in total.

By comparison, around 80 percent of all January 6th defendants have received sentences below government recommendations. In other words, Chutkan gives elevated sentences at a far higher rate than other judges handling similar cases.

That points to a deeply personal and emotional investment by the judge in the events of January 6th. In 2022, the Associated Press even labeled her as the “toughest punisher” relating to how she was handling those specific cases. Chutkan appears to be on a revenge tour as a judge based in the nation’s capital, and there’s every reason to believe jailing Trump would be her ultimate prize.

Also concerning is what circles Chutkan ran in before assuming her position on a U.S. District Court. She once worked for Boies Schiller and Flexner. Take a wild guess who also used to work there?

Once again, the incestuousness of the Beltway is shown. This Obama appointee just so happens to have worked for the same law firm that once gave Hunter Biden a sweetheart employment deal that absolutely no one else would have gotten in the given timeframe. Is that directly relevant to this latest Trump indictment? Not necessarily, but it provides more evidence of the school of thought that Chutkan comes from.

All that to say that there’s no reason to expect fairness in this situation. Chutkan is credibly expected to be on the warpath, and Trump’s legal team is going to have its work cut out for it. In the end, the only hope may be getting this in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. How that happens and how long that could take is an open-ended question.

For now, though, Chutkan is in charge, and I would count on her trying to fast-track this trial before the general election. If she’s as biased as it seems, and there’s every reason to think she is, she won’t want to risk Trump winning the election and having the power to pardon himself.

“Chutkan was born on July 5, 1962, in Kingston, Jamaica. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1983 from George Washington University. She later attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was an associate editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. She graduated in 1987 with a Juris Doctor.”

“In February 2017, Public.Resource.Org was sued by the American Society for Testing and Materials, the National Fire Protection Association, the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers, and other entities for scanning and making available building codes and fire codes which these organizations consider their copyrighted property. Chutkan ruled against Public.Resource.Org, ordering all of the standards to be deleted from the Internet. Public.Resource.Org appealed her ruling to the D.C. Circuit, which reversed and remanded her decision in 2018, holding that the fair use doctrines had been improperly applied. In March 2022, Chutkan issued a new ruling that would allow Public.Resource.Org to reproduce 184 standards under fair use, partially reproduce 1 standard, and deny reproduction of 32 standards that were found to differ in substantive ways from those incorporated by law; ASTM et al. has since appealed again to the D.C. Circuit.”

“On April 26, 2019, Chutkan sentenced Maria Butina to 18 months in prison for conspiring to be an unregistered agent of the Russian government in the United States.”

“On November 20, 2019, Chutkan issued a preliminary injunction against the U.S. Department of Justice, finding that federal inmates sentenced to death were likely to succeed in arguing that the federal government’s new lethal injection procedure—which uses a single drug, pentobarbital, rather than the three-drug combination previously in place—“exceeds statutory authority” under the Federal Death Penalty Act. Chutkan’s order was later reversed by a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and the case is currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. The reversal of the injunction was upheld and thirteen federal inmates were executed.”

“On March 7, 2019, Chutkan ruled that U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos illegally delayed the implementation of the “Equity in IDEA” regulations. These regulations updated how states calculate racial disparities in the identification of children as being eligible for special education, the placement of children in restrictive classroom settings, and the use exclusionary discipline. Chutkan also ruled that the U.S. Department of Education violated the law concerning the spread of regulations by neglecting to provide a “reasoned explanation” for the delay, and failing to account for the costs that child, parents, and society would bear.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_S._Chutkan

“On June 8, 2018, Chutkan blocked until June 20 the release in Syrian Democratic Forces-controlled territory of a dual-nationality Saudi-American citizen alleged to have joined ISIL. The man, who is now held for nine months in Iraq, was planned to be released by the U.S. military – with a new cell phone, some food and water and $4,210 in cash, and his Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) identification card, as soon as the next day.”

If over turned there is no conviction and the at the very least the Judge's reputation will be damaged.

As the leading opposition Presidential Candidate, Trump would have grounds to request a fast track appeal to SCOTUS because of the election. As a former President under the protection of the Secret Service I think it is likely he would be placed in some form of house arrest where he cannot campaign. Blue State AGs would use the conviction to keep him off the ballot. This has been the goal all along as I suspect even the documents case could be beat on Appeal or any conviction stayed until there is a rehearing of their case. This has been Smith and Garlands game plan all along. This is why Smith wants a speedy trial and he did not get that in the documents case. He and the RAT party do not control the Judge in Florida, they own the Bitch Judge in DC

If SCOTUS overturned the conviction, it could backfire on the the RATS, there will a massive protest vote for Trump. If he is not on the ballot I am writing him in, and I do not even really like the man as a politician.

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