Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz is calling on Congress to censure and probe Judge Tanya Chutkan who will oversee Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 case; she is already known for recommending strict, above-average sentencing for members of the Jan. 6 crowd.
“It is deeply concerning to see a United States District Court judge show such blatant impropriety from the bench,” Gaetz told Fox News Digital. “Judge Tanya Chutkan’s impracticality of her tough sentencing of Jan. 6th defendants, despite openly supporting the violent Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, showcases not only a lack of impartiality but also a disregard for the sacred duty of a judge to uphold justice fairly.”
Gaetz wants the House Judiciary Committee to open a probe.
From Fox News:
One of the instances that Gaetz’s resolution zeroes in on is an Oct. 4, 2021, sentencing hearing during which Chutkan disagreed with a comparison made between the Capitol riot and the protests after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020.
“People gathered all over the country last year to protest the violent murder by the police of an unarmed man … 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 Jan. 6 riot posed to the foundation of our democracy,” Gaetz cited Chutkan as saying.
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Gaetz also said the man she was sentencing at the time, Matthew Mazzocco, “was a nonviolent offender who spent merely 12 minutes on Capitol grounds and who urged others to remain peaceful on January 6, 2021,” according to the resolution text. Chutkan had sentenced Mazzocco to 45 days in jail over the misdemeanor charge.
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