The federal judge assigned to special counsel Jack Smith‘s January 6 case against former President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., worked in the same law firm that once employed Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden.
After being randomly selected to oversee the case after a grand jury indicted Trump on four charges over an alleged effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan’s resume and record quickly began to draw attention, similar to what happened with the Florida-based judge presiding over Smith’s other, documents-focused case against Trump.
The Associated Press has described Chutkan as the “toughest punisher” of Capitol riot defendants over the prison sentences she has meted out. The judge also made headlines in 2021 with a ruling against Trump’s efforts to stop the January 6 Committee from obtaining White House records, writing, “Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.”
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