District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Wednesday denied a request by former President Donald Trump’s legal team to recuse herself from his 2020 election interference trial in Washington.
Lawyers for the 77-year-old former president had argued that statements made by Chutkan while presiding over the trials of defendants who stormed the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 are “disqualifying” and would “taint” the proceedings against Trump.
“[T]he statements certainly do not manifest a deep-seated prejudice that would make fair judgment impossible — the standard for recusal based on statements with intrajudicial origins,” Chutkan, 61, wrote in her opinion.
Chutkan argued in her opinion that the statements “fall short of manifesting ‘clear and convincing evidence’ that the court has conducted itself ‘in a manner supporting disqualification.’”
[Source.](https://nypost.com/2023/09/27/judge-tanya-chutkan-will-not-recuse-herself-in-jan-6-trump-case/)
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District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Wednesday denied a request by former President Donald Trump’s legal team to recuse herself from his 2020 election interference trial in Washington.
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Lawyers for the 77-year-old former president had argued that statements made by Chutkan while presiding over the trials of defendants who stormed the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 are “disqualifying” and would “taint” the proceedings against Trump.
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“[T]he statements certainly do not manifest a deep-seated prejudice that would make fair judgment impossible — the standard for recusal based on statements with intrajudicial origins,” Chutkan, 61, wrote in her opinion.
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Chutkan argued in her opinion that the statements “fall short of manifesting ‘clear and convincing evidence’ that the court has conducted itself ‘in a manner supporting disqualification.’”
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