Judge Tanya Chutkan has repeatedly addressed the impact of the January US Capitol attack during sentences for convicted rioters and has repeatedly exceeded what prosecutors have requested . Trump had argued that previous comments made to defendants accused of participating on January including that some riot defendants had blind loyalty to one person who by the way remains free to this day met that legal standard because they made her appear prejudiced against Trump . In her page ruling on Wednesday she spells out her approach to previous US Capitol riot defendants appearing before her and why she mentioned Trump during those hearings . She has also presided over civil litigation involving January including a forceful rejection of Trumps attempts to block the House select committee investigating the insurrection from accessing more than pages of records from his White House . She wrote that Presidents are not kings and Plaintiff is not President Chut Kan . Chutkans said her statements arose not as the defense speculates from watching the news but from the sentencing proceedings in those cases and directly reflected facts proffered and arguments made by those defendants . She said her statement arose not to be taken out of context but from those defendants who minimized their actions on January by casting blame on Trump and other political leaders . She also said that she was responding to defendants who minimize their actions in January by blaming Trump and others . The ruling was not reasonable she wrote. She said that her statements arise not as … the defense speculated from the defense . The defense speculating from reading the news. ChutKan said her comments arose not … but from … the defendants. She was … and that the statements arose from the … and said that the defense. She had said that it was simply . The statements arose Not as the Defense speculates about the . defense speculated from watching .
Judge Tanya Chutkan rejects Trump’s demand that she recuse herself . Judge
