Tag Archives: Tanya Chutkan

Newsweek reports: U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is presiding over Donald Trump’s election interference case in Washington, D.C., was reportedly the target of a swatting call on Sunday night. Police and fire services responded to a reported shooting at a home owned by Chutkan in the capital on Sunday. Audio from the police response was also shared on social …

The Messenger reports: The federal judge overseeing the election-subversion case against Donald Trump on Tuesday declined to allow the American Civil Liberties Union to enter a legal brief in the proceedings. The ACLU on Oct. 25 submitted a motion seeking the court’s permission to enter an amicus brief in the case in which it argued that a partial gag order …

Reuters reports: A federal judge on Sunday reinstated a gag order she imposed on Donald Trump in the Washington case accusing him of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat, denying his bid for a stay pending appeal. The order prohibited Trump from targeting the special counsel prosecuting his case or witnesses who might be called to testify about his …

The Messenger reports: The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal case in Washington, D.C., said on Monday there’d be no changes to the March 2024 trial schedule despite pleadings from the former president to postpone his case beyond next November’s Election Day. “This trial will not yield to the election cycle, and we will not revisit the trial date,” U.S. …

The Associated Press reports: U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan will hear arguments Monday in Washington over whether Trump has gone too far with remarks such as calling prosecutors a “team of thugs” and one possible witness “a gutless pig.” It is the biggest test yet for Chutkan, underscoring the unprecedented complexities of prosecuting the former Republican president as the judge …

CBS News reports: Attorneys for former President Donald Trump want a new judge in his 2020 election interference case. In a filing Monday, they argued that Judge Tanya Chutkan should recuse herself from the case for previous statements they say give the appearance of bias. They did not outright accuse Chutkan of being biased against Trump, but highlighted statements they …

Reuters reports: A federal judge on Monday is expected to set a start date for former U.S. President Donald Trump’s criminal trial on charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat in a failed bid to keep himself in power. The criminal case brought in Washington, D.C., by Special Counsel Jack Smith is one of four that Trump, the …

Axios reports: Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Friday introduced a longshot resolution to censure and open an investigation into the judge overseeing the federal trial into former President Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. It’s the latest example of Trump’s allies closing ranks around the former president and trying to use congressional power to undermine efforts to prosecute …

Politico reports: Donald Trump slammed the judge presiding over his newest criminal case early Monday, testing her three-day-old warning that he refrain from “inflammatory” attacks against those involved in his case. In a Truth Social post just before 1 a.m., Trump assailed U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan as “highly partisan” and “very biased and unfair,” citing as evidence a …

CBS News reports: The federal judge overseeing the case against former President Donald Trump related to the 2020 presidential election issued a protective order Friday limiting the use and disclosure of “sensitive” material moving forward, imposing a narrower set of restrictions than prosecutors had sought. Chutkan sided with prosecutors on several details related to the order, including a request that …

CNN reports: US District Judge Tanya Chutkan said Friday that she plans to issue a protective order over the handling of evidence in the Donald Trump 2020 election interference case, saying it’s needed to protect witnesses or other interference in the trial. The former president has a right to free speech, but that right is “not absolute,” the judge said …

The Associated Press reports: The federal judge overseeing the 2020 election conspiracy case against Donald Trump will hear arguments Friday over a request by prosecutors for a protective order seeking to bar the former president from publicly disclosing evidence shared by the government. The protective order sought by special counsel Jack Smith’s team has become an early flashpoint in the …

CNBC reports: Former President Donald Trump on Sunday called for recusal of the judge presiding over the federal case that alleges he illegally conspired to overturn his election loss to President Joe Biden in 2020. The case was assigned to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, according to the docket in federal court in Washington, D.C. Chutkan, 61, was appointed to …

The Washington Examiner reports: A federal judge issued a ruling ordering Donald Trump to respond to a protective order filed by the Justice Department that would block the former president from sharing details of evidence from his Jan. 6 criminal case proceedings. In a court order filed Saturday afternoon, Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled Trump’s legal team must respond to the …

The Hill reports: Republican allies of Donald Trump are stepping up their attacks on Washington, D.C., District Judge Tanya Chutkan and the D.C. court itself, arguing it would be impossible for the former president to get a fair trial in the nation’s capital city. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, accused Chutkan of having “a …