Polarizing the Jan. 6 Justice System

https://www.wsj.com/articles/polarizing-the-jan-6-justice-system-judge-tanya-chutkan-capitol-11633639202?mod=opinion_lead_pos2 ^ | 10/7/21 | WSJ

[Brilliant]

Federal judges have significant discretion in handing down sentences, but in politically charged cases it’s important that they don’t give the impression that criminal defendants are being treated differently because of their politics…

that’s what federal Judge Tanya Chutkan did this week in a sentencing hearing for a defendant who pleaded guilty to “parading, demonstrating, or picketing” in the Capitol without authorization during the Jan. 6 riot.

The prosecutor recommended that Matthew Mazzocco serve three months of home confinement for the misdemeanor charge. Judge Chutkan imposed a 45-day jail sentence…

Judge Chutkan’s commentary during sentencing suggested that her decision was influenced by the politics... She gratuitously invoked the summer Black Lives Matter protests and riots, favorably comparing them to the events of Jan. 6: “People gathered all over the country last year to protest the violent murder by the police of an unarmed man—some of those protests became violent,” the judge said at the sentencing hearing...

She added that “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 the very real danger that the Jan. 6 riot posed to the foundation of our democracy.”

The defendant in this case, according to the FBI statement of facts, “is seen and heard on the video telling others not to take or destroy anything.” He copped to a misdemeanor picketing charge, not to attempting to overthrow the government. Judge Chutkan’s soliloquy implies that he deserves a more severe punishment than those who did the same thing in service of a political cause she favors…

[Brilliant]

The judge should be impeached. But the reality is that the whole judiciary is so badly compromised that there will be no consequence.

[Cboldt]

but in politically charged cases it's important that they don't give the impression that criminal defendants are being treated differently because of their politics...

Basically the WSJ is advising judges to lie in order to maintain the appearance of impartiality.

I prefer the judges to wear their bias on their sleeves.

[Paladin2]

But Traitor Roberts has yet to admit that there ARE, in fact, 0bama Judges.

[KC_Conspirator]

Obummer judge, of course.

[from occupied ga]

The judge should be impeached sentenced to 10 years hard labor.

[Jeff Chandler]

Judge Tanya

[jdsteel]

We are in a post law, post Constitutional America. And the left is just getting started.

[Brilliant]

You caught that too.

[lepton]

Comparing the people who were peacefully protesting at BLM protests, and not even arrested, to those at the BLM protests who were arrested for being violent is a false equivalency.