Trump Trial: Obama Judge Tanya Chutkan Compares Jan 6 to Boston Marathon Bombing and 9/11
Chris Menahan
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Judge sets trial date to March 4, 2024 — one day before Super Tuesday
Tanya Chutkan, the Obama-appointed DC district judge assigned to Donald Trump’s Jan 6 case, compared Jan 6 to the Boston Marathon bombing and September 11th while denying a request from Trump’s legal team to delay the trial until April 2026.And there you have it, folks.
Obama-appointed Tanya Chutkan just compared January 6 to Boston Marathon bombing and 9/11.
Insulting to the victims and legally illiterate. She isn’t just crooked but painfully stupid. pic.twitter.com/IyiZ0tHrwD
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) August 29, 2023
“After considering the parties’ briefs and arguments, I find that a trial beginning on March 4, 2024, would give the defense adequate time to prepare for trial and ensure the public’s interest in seeing this case resolved in a timely manner,” US District Judge Tanya Chutkan said, setting the trial date to one day before Super Tuesday.
“The trial will start three years, one month and 27 days after the events of Jan. 6, 2021,” she said. “The trial involving the Boston Marathon bombing began less than two years after the events. The trial involving Zacarias Moussaoui for his role in the September 11 attacks was set to begin one year after the attacks; but due to continuances, appeals, and voluminous discovery, it began roughly four years later.”
Chutkan — who is the only federal judge in DC to sentence Jan 6 defendants to sentences longer than government prosecutors requested — said previously that events of Jan 6 were an attempt to “violently overthrow the government” to “stop the peaceful transition of power” and must be “met with absolutely certain punishment.”