Everything is political, including this. The trial date for President Trump is set for March 4, 2024. That’s the day before Super Tuesday, the Republican primary. Judge Tanya Chutkan made the date decision. She’s a federal judge for the District of Columbia. The jury pool will come from Washington, DC where you won’t find anything conservative. Trump attorney John Lauro objected.
Trump denied rights
Lauro said this “is inconsistent with President Trump’s right to due process and the right to effective assistance of counsel.” She arrived at this date from a wide set of options proposed by Trump’s legal team and federal prosecutors under Jack Smith’s control.
The Biden administration wanted January 2, 2024 but Chutkan said that wasn’t time for the opposition to prepare. That might be the only move in the direction of propriety, even show trials need a little of that.
Trump wanted April 2026
But Chutkan shot that down, saying “that was far beyond being necessary.” Of course it was. The 2024 election will be over with and this action might not be worth pursuing if the Democrats win. However, it’s not likely it will be dropped since Trump needs to be continuously punished for thinking of a different way of running things.
Not including state cases in New York and Georgia, the January 6 case is the second round of federal action brought against Trump. There are four indictments here: 1) “conspiracy to defraud the United States,” 2) “conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding,” 3) “obstruction of, and attempt to obstruct, an official proceeding,” and 4) “conspiracy against rights.”
Judge Tanya Chutkan
Chutkan is an Obama appointee. She’s Jamaican with a grandfather named Frank Hill who was a communist revolutionary. He was briefly jailed by the British for “subversive activities” in World War II. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz asked for Chutkan to be censored and condemned in a recent resolution. She had a rant that condoned the violent protests surrounding George Floyd during January 6 sentencing. Gaetz quoted Chutkan “To compare the actions of people protesting, mostly peacefully, for civil rights, to those of a violent mob seeking to overthrow the lawfully elected government is a false equivalency and ignores a very real danger that the January 6 riot posed to the foundation of our democracy.” Chutkan also “lamented that Donald Trump ‘remains free to this day.’”
