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Seeking to disqualify a judge is a challenging and precarious move — one that, if it fails (which it often does), runs the risk of annoying the person granted the power to make critical decisions in the case. Mr. Trump’s lawyers filed their recusal motion two weeks ago, after Judge Chutkan handed them a significant defeat by scheduling the trial for March, much earlier than they had requested, but before they had filed any substantive motions to attack the charges Mr. Trump is facing. A judge’s decision to remain on a case is generally not subject to an immediate appeal — though Mr. Trump’s lawyers could in theory try. Judge Chutkan’s ruling not to disqualify herself came as she considers a potentially significant development in the case: whether to grant the government’s request to impose a gag order on Mr. Trump’s public statements about the case. In asking Judge Chutkan to step aside, Mr. Trump’s lawyers cited statements she had made about the former president at hearings for two defendants facing sentencing for crimes they committed on Jan. 6.
Persons: Judge Chutkan, Trump, Judge Chutkan’s, Christine Priola, Robert Palmer, Organizations: Capitol, Locations: Cleveland, Florida
The judge rejected that argument, writing Wednesday "the court has never taken the position the defense ascribes to it." The Jan. 6, 2021, riot is a central element of the prosecution's claims about Trump in the Washington case. Trump's lawyers wrote that the remark in Priola's hearing sent an "inescapable" message: "President Trump is free, but should not be." And she said that she "has never taken the position the defense ascribes to it: that former 'President Trump should be prosecuted and imprisoned.'" Trump has slammed Chutkan as a "biased, Trump Hating Judge."
Persons: Donald Trump, Tanya Chutkan, Chutkan, Trump, Joe Biden, Jack Smith, Biden, Christine Priola, Robert Palmer, Palmer, Mr, Barack Obama, Smith Organizations: Wednesday, Washington , D.C, Capitol, Trump, U.S . Capitol Locations: Washington ,, U.S, Washington, Trump
Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump on Monday asked the federal judge overseeing his looming trial on charges of trying to overturn the 2020 election to recuse herself, claiming that she has shown a bias against Mr. Trump in public statements made from the bench in other cases. The recusal motion was a risky gambit by Mr. Trump’s legal team given that the judge, Tanya S. Chutkan, will have the initial say about whether or not to grant it. Mr. Trump’s lawyers have tried this strategy before, attempting — and failing — to have the judge overseeing his state felony trial in Manhattan step aside. In a motion filed in Federal District Court in Washington, John F. Lauro, a lawyer for Mr. Trump, cited statements Judge Chutkan had made about the former president at hearings for two defendants facing sentencing for crimes they committed at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. At one of the hearings, in October 2022, Judge Chutkan told the defendant, Christine Priola, a former occupational therapist in the Cleveland school system, that the people who “mobbed” the Capitol on Jan. 6 showed “blind loyalty to one person who, by the way, remains free to this day.”
Persons: Donald J, Trump, Tanya S, John F, Lauro, Judge Chutkan, Christine Priola, Organizations: Monday, Court, Capitol Locations: Manhattan, Washington, Cleveland
Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as he campaigns at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S. August 12, 2023. Former President Donald Trump kicked off the week of his expected fourth indictment by railing against the judge overseeing the federal case charging him with illegally conspiring to subvert the 2020 election results. In a pair of social media posts just after midnight Monday, Trump attacked U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan as "highly partisan" and "very biased & unfair!" "She obviously wants me behind bars," Trump wrote on Truth Social at 1:14 a.m. "The people who mobbed that Capitol were there in fealty, in loyalty, to one man," Chutkan said, according to a transcript of the hearing.
Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Tanya Chutkan, Christine Priola, Chutkan, Gov, Geoff Duncan Organizations: Fair, U.S, Capitol, CNBC Locations: Iowa, Des Moines , Iowa, U.S, Fulton County , Georgia, Georgia
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