out of her way to side with trump in a way that the appeals court said was very inappropriate in an earlier case. that is the federal documents criminal chase against trump and florida. there is no such controversy that the judge overseeing the new indictment against trump and washington d.c.. the judge assigned to the case is named judge tanya check-in, see h uk t iain. she was nominated to the district court in 2014 by president obama, and not to be too productive about it, but i don t think anybody would give you a good faith fight if you described the judge as a normal judge, a very normal uncontroversial, well tested, good, mainstream smart federal judge. i think that is universally her reputation. should also tell you that this is not our first january six related case. she against its in federal
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court in washington d.c., and that is where so many other charges have been brought against hundreds of january 6th defendants. judge chutkan has presided on about over 2000 of the cases. for what it s worth, she has consistently handed down tough sentences in this case is one, people have been found guilty. she s the only judge in any of the january six cases who have handed out longer sentences that doj prosecutors even asked for. you should also know that this is not judge chutkan s first-time presiding over a legal matter that involves former president donald trump. in 2021, during the congressional investigation into january six, trump suit to try to block investigators from accessing some of his records from his time in the white house, and in that lawsuit, judge ruled against. she allowed the january six investigators to access the criminal records. she did in memorable terms. she wrote in her ruling, but you might remember, quote,
public life. but, if you are badly convicted or appealing a conviction on something as serious as trying to enter democracy because of your terrible losing streak, which is where the losers stuff, he s a repeat loser of elections, and the alleged evidence of coup stuff combines into a very unpopular sandwich. and donald trump understands, and donald trump you are not unpopular sandwich, that is not what he meant. well, that is where that all comes together, and it is something donald trump knows because he s always calling everyone what? loser? we re accusing them of being a criminal that this person is crooked, or that person is under investigation, or what was his first impeachment about? faking a for an investigation of the bidens. he understands that. again, the case has to go forward without politics, but if we are asking a rely reality
trial. i don t know if that will come up and an arraignment. she will be interested in moving the case along. she ll be very interested in whether the discovery as been turned over. i expect that we will hear prior to thursday from the government, a report about what they have done with respect to discovery. you saw that at the mar-a-lago case, and into the way that the government can try and prompted the judge to try and be focused on a day prior to the general election. and you, it s chris hayes, we re in the same room, if you did not know that the. the tv, the magic of, i m looking into the camera. so, i guess my question is, there is no precedent here for preferred i mean, take away precedence, i can t think of a defendant, just a defendant, they have seen this many trials and different venues all at the same time. i think it s probably hard to come up with the, so i guess