The Rupert Murdoch-owned Times of London has glossed over the partisan political background of Tanya Sue Chutkan, the judge assigned to Donald Trump’s latest indictment, in a suspiciously cursory profile.
While noting she has been unusually harsh on Jan 6 defendants, handing down prison sentences to all 38 who have come before her – “some of them longer than requested by prosecutors” – the newspaper neglected to mention her clear double standards with respect to Black Lives Matter rioters.
While jailing one Jan 6 defendant, despite prosecutors not asking for a prison sentence, she raged that it was outrageous “to compare the actions of people protesting, mostly peacefully, for civil rights” during the Black Lives Matter disorder in 2020 to Trump supporters “trying to overthrow the government” in 2021.
This was not the only suspect omission by The Times, which also noted that Jamaica-born Chutkan had been appointed by Barack Obama while failing to mention she was one of his political donors.
The report did claim that, during one Jan 6 sentence hearing in 2021, she said it is “not patriotism, it is not standing up for America, to stand up for one man – who knows full well that he lost – instead of the constitution he was trying to subvert.”
The Times did not question whether she should recuse herself from Trump’s case in light of this, however.
