The Hill reports:
Republican allies of Donald Trump are stepping up their attacks on Washington, D.C., District Judge Tanya Chutkan and the D.C. court itself, arguing it would be impossible for the former president to get a fair trial in the nation’s capital city.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, accused Chutkan of having “a reputation for being far left, even by D.C. District Court standards.”
He noted that she had set aside “numerous federal death penalty cases” and “is the only federal judge in Washington DC, who has sentenced Jan. 6 defendants to sentences longer than the government requested.”
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U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has “a reputation for being far-left,” argued Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who helped to unanimously confirm her in 2014. https://t.co/F7my6E7UMQ
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