Tanya Chutkan, the Jamaica-born federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s prosecution over January 6th, has blocked the former president’s legal teams attempts to subpoena “missing” Jan 6 Committee records.
The J6 Committee, staffed almost entirely by Democrats, failed to preserve or properly organize its records. Trump’s lawyers had moved to subpoena all of its supposed evidence, arguing the Justice Department relied on the committee to build much of its case against him.
Chutkan, however, has refused to allow this. She insists the “broad scope of the records that Defendant seeks, and his vague description of their potential relevance, resemble less ‘a good faith effort to obtain identified evidence’ than they do ‘a general ‘fishing expedition.'”
Chutkan comes from a family of “dangerous” Jamaican Marxists. She is also an alumnus of the law firm that represented the anti-Trump dossier progenitor firm Fusion GPS.
Trump’s team has asked Chutkan to recuse herself from the case. They cite comments she has made at previous Jan 6 trials, strongly implying she believes he is guilty. These requests have been denied.
She has also attempted to place a gag order on the 45th President to limit his ability to speak freely about his prosecution. Even the leftist American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has blasted it as a violation of the First Amendment.
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