Judge assigned to Trump’s Jan. 6 case is a tricky punisher of Capitol rioters

The federal choose assigned to the election fraud case in opposition to former President Donald Trump has stood out as one of many hardest punishers of rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in an assault fueled by Trump’s baseless claims of a stolen election. She has additionally dominated in opposition to him earlier than.

Trump is to look Thursday earlier than U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, a former assistant public defender who was nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama. She typically has handed down jail sentences in Jan. 6, 2021, riot circumstances which can be harsher than Justice Department prosecutors really useful.

Chutkan has dominated in opposition to Trump earlier than in a separate Jan. 6 case.

In November 2021, she refused his request to dam the discharge of paperwork to the U.S. House’s Jan. 6 committee by asserting government privilege. She rejected his arguments that he may maintain privilege over paperwork from his administration even after President Joe Biden had cleared the best way for the National Archives to show the papers over.