District Judge Tanya Chutkan has repeatedly spoken out in very strong terms against the efforts to overturn the election and disrupt the transfer of power . She has been outspoken about the riot at several sentencing hearings calling the violence an assault on American democracy and warning of future danger from political violence . In November she forcefully rejected Trumps attempts to block the House select committee investigating January from accessing more than pages of records from his White House . At a sentencing hearing in January she said the proTrump insurrection nearly succeeded. This was a violent attempted overthrow of the government and it almost succeeded. At that same hearing she also rejected comparisons between January and the protests against racial inequality and racial justice unrest . At that hearing she said to one rioter that he did not go to the United States Capitol out of any love for our country. They came to Washington knowing full well the events of January adding that their actions were an attack on the American people. He went for one man. At the sentencing hearing she told one rioters. They come to D.C. It was not Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure This wasnt Bill and . This was an assault of Bill and Trumps Excellent Adventure Chutkkan said before sentencing two friends who came to the Capitol. She added that they came to D-C. D-CA knowing fullWell the events were an assault. They went to Washington. She came to DC knowing full. She said. They . came to d-CA. It wasn’t Bill’s Excellent Adventure. They didn’re. They had come to Washington’S Excellent Adventure’. It’�s excellent Adventure. Chut Kan’Tekan. This is not Bill or Teds
Judge assigned to Trump case previously said ‘the country is watching to see what the consequences
