Following Trump's lead, some Jan. 6 defendants have remained defiant. During his trial, Vo himself attended the so-called "Freedom Corner," a nightly vigil for defendants held outside their prison in Washington, D.C.. Chutkan ruled that attending the vigil was a violation of h...
"Accordingly, the court has repeatedly stressed that 'Defendant's concern with the political consequences of these proceedings does not bear on the pretrial schedule,'" Chutkan wrote. Trump's attorneys, in a court filing Thursday morning, had requested that Chutkan delay the release of the appe...
Judge Tanya Chutkan often has handed down prison sentences in Jan. 6, 2021, riot cases that are harsher than what Justice Department prosecutors recommended.
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Mehta wrote that while, "it is true in a sense—both cases center on the former President’s actions in the lead up to and on January 6, 2021... [Trump ] overstates the significance of that factual overlap in the present posture of these matters." ...
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At the same time, Chutkan found that Trump could not use favorable rulings he secured during his own administration to stymie House investigations in this case. Chutkan found that the Jan. 6 subpoena was well-founded and that Trump, who is no longer president, cannot state a harm he would...