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The case of the third criminal indictment of donald trump It will be perhaps the most important in the history of USA and the career of the judge Tanya Chutkanwho has handed down some of the harshest sentences against supporters of the former president in cases involving the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.
Chutkan, 61, was assigned to oversee the historic trial of the 45th president of USA on charges of conspiracy to reverse the outcome of the 2020 election What did the democrat win? Joe Biden. She was randomly assigned.
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Chutkan and Trump crossed paths two years ago when the latter filed a lawsuit claiming that as president he could not turn over documents to a congressional committee investigating the attack on the Capitol by his supporters.
Trump was no longer president at the time and Chutkan, in his ruling, rejected the lawsuit saying that his argument “seems to be based on the notion that its executive power ‘exists in perpetuity’”.
“But presidents are not kings and the plaintiff is not president”Chutkan wrote.
Some of the records and files of the White House that Chutkan ordered released were used as evidence in the 45-page criminal indictment filed against Trump Tuesday by the special counsel jack smith.
The trials for the attack on the Capitol have been held in Washingtonand Chutkan, who has presided over nearly three dozen such cases, has handed down some of the harshest sentences.
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In December 2021, the magistrate sentenced a Trump supporter to five years in prison for assaulting police officers on Capitol Hill, the harshest sentence to date.
“It must be made clear that trying to violently overthrow the government, trying to stop the peaceful transition of power, and assaulting law enforcement officers in that effort“bears rigged”a punishment“, said.
Jamaican born
According to a Washington Post count, by mid-June Chutkan had sentenced 31 defendants to prison terms.
Trump, the favorite for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, will appear before another judge in Washington on Thursday. Then the case will go to Chutkan.
Born in Jamaica, this judge was appointed by the former Democratic president Barack Obama and confirmed unanimously (95-0) by the Senate in June 2014.
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According to her official biography, she has a degree in economics from George Washington University and a law degree from Pennsylvania.
After working for three years in a law firm, she became a public defender in the city of Washington, where she spent the next 11 years.
She then joined the law firm of Boies, Schiller & Flexner, where she worked for another 12 years before becoming a federal judge.
Source: Elcomercio
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