A federal judge with a history of handing out stiff penalties to the more than two dozen Capitol rioters who have come before her was assigned on Tuesday to oversee the D.C. trial of former President Donald Trump.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, 61, was appointed to the bench in 2014 by then-President Barack Obama. A former supervisor in the D.C. public defender’s office, she was working as a partner at the firm Boies, Schiller, & Flexner when she was called up to the bench. She was confirmed unanimously in a 95-0 vote by the Senate that same year.
As of last month, Chutkan has had 31 convicted rioters come before her; she has put all of them behind bars. According to data collected by Two months prior, Chutkan indirectly invoked Trump while incarcerating a rioter who had pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of illegally demonstrating in the Capitol. “Mr. Mazzocco did not go to the United States Capitol out of any love for our country,” the judge said. “He went for one man.”
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