“A federal judge who has strongly criticized the January 6 insurrection and handed down prison time to some convicted rioters is set to hear former President Donald Trump's challenge to a House subpoena of records from his time in office related to the siege.
“Judge Tanya Chutkan was assigned to hear Trump's suit, which lawyers for the former President filed on Monday.” cnn.com/2021/10/19/pol…
“ … Speaking earlier this month at a sentencing hearing for a nonviolent rioter who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of illegally demonstrating in the Capitol, Chutkan made a tacit reference to Trump, …
“saying that the rioter ‘did not go to the United States Capitol out of any love for our country ... He went for one man.’
“During the same hearing, she described the January 6 episode as ‘a violent mob seeking to overthrow the lawfully elected government,’ adding that the crowd that day posed a ‘very real danger ... to our democracy.’
“Chutkan also said that rioters ‘soiled and defaced the halls of the Capitol and showed their contempt for the rule of law.’
" ‘The country is watching to see what the consequences are for something that has not ever happened in the country before,’ she said.
“And last week, Chutkan sentenced two cousins with extensive criminal records to 45 days in jail for storming the Capitol, a somewhat rare punishment among convicted January 6 rioters.
“In doing so, she blasted the men for their ‘decision to take that protest and turn it into a violent occupation of the US Capitol ... at a time when we were attempting the peaceful transfer of power.’ “

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