2023-08-02 16:06:01
by Viviana Mazza
The case of the assault on Congress is the one in which the tycoon risks the most. Chosen in 2014, Tanya Chutkan sees prison as a deterrent against future uprisings. One of his maxims: Presidents are not kings
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT
NEW YORK — Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan, who will handle the third indictment of Donald Trump, is known for delivering some of the harshest sentences in the past two years against supporters of the former president who stormed the US Congress on January 6, 2021.
Appointed by President Obama, she will preside over the case in which Trump is accused of trying to subvert the outcome of the 2020 vote in the two months that culminated in the assault on Congress. This is the second federal indictment against Trump after the one for the documents he withheld in the Mar-a-Lago residence after the end of his term. And the one in which he could risk more.
A Trump-appointed judge, Aileen Cannon, will preside over the seized documents trial in Florida, and jurors will be chosen from a district that elected Trump twice in 2016 and 2020.
As for the non-federal indictment in New York State, the first involving the former president, Trump’s lawyers have accused Judge Juan Merchan who oversees the trial for the financing of porn star Stormy Daniels of having prejudices against the tycoon – accusations rejected by the ethics commission of the New York judiciary – but it is a case in which many independent experts have expressed doubts about the validity of the legal bases for a conviction.
Chutkan was among the 20 or so judges who handled 600 January 6 rioter cases, and has frequently handed down prison sentences (from ten days to five years) for the 38 cases she hears, even though it was not recommended by the Justice Department: according to her, prison is a deterrent against future uprisings of that kind.
He also delivered a verdict against Trump in another case involving Jan. 6, when he refused his request to prevent documents related to his tenure from being handed over to the House Committee to Investigate the Congressional Storming. The former president claimed he could prevent it in the name of executive privilege, even though his successor Biden had authorized it. a sentence in Judge Chutkan’s ruling: Presidents are not kings and the plaintiff is not the president.
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