一名地区法官否认前总统唐纳德·特朗普试图让她回避主持他的联邦政府选举干预案.
华盛顿特区地区法官Tanya Chutkan拒绝这个论点来自特朗普的法律团队，关于她在2021年1月6日对袭击美国国会大厦的亲特朗普暴徒判刑期间发表的声明。
在特朗普律师引用的2022年10月的一次听证会上，楚特坎法官特朗普的支持者将国会大厦袭击描述为“不亚于试图暴力推翻政府”，他们“在那里效忠于一个人”。这是对一个人的盲目忠诚，顺便说一句，这个人至今仍是自由的。”
在为楚特坎的回避辩护时，特朗普的律师表示，“这一声明的公共意义是不可避免的——特朗普总统是自由的，但不应该是。作为一种明显的有罪预判，这些评论本身就剥夺了资格。”
在另一个例子中，特朗普的律师引用了2021年12月的一次听证会，在这次听证会上，楚特坎对一名被定罪的暴徒说，“那些劝诫你、鼓励你和团结你去采取行动和战斗的人没有受到指控。”
“这种公开声明造成了一种与我们的司法系统不相容的预先判断的感觉，”特朗普的律师在争取取消楚特坎的资格时表示。
在这张2020年12月7日的资料照片中，唐纳德·特朗普总统在华盛顿特区白宫椭圆形办公室举行的仪式上观看
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在周三的裁决中，Chutkan还反驳说，她的陈述是基于她通过新闻报道观察到的事实，而不是通过被告自己在请求宽大处理的辩论中向她提供的事实。
特朗普已经不服罪被控通过招募一系列所谓的“假选举人”，利用司法部进行“虚假选举犯罪调查”，试图招募副总统“改变选举结果”，并在1月6日暴乱肆虐时宣传虚假的选举舞弊指控，以推翻2020年选举的结果——所有这些都是为了颠覆民主，继续掌权。
Chutkan将审判的开始日期定在2024年3月4日。
Judge rejects Trump's effort to have her recused from his federal election interference case
A district judge has denied former President Donald Trump's effort to have her recuse herself from presiding over his federalelection interference case.
Washington, D.C., District Judge Tanya Chutkanrejected the argumentfrom Trump's legal team regarding statements she made during her sentencing of pro-Trump rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6, 2021.
In an October 2022 hearing cited by Trump's attorneys,Judge Chutkandescribed the Capitol assault as "nothing less than an attempt to violently overthrow the government" by Trump's supporters, who "were there in fealty, in loyalty, to one man. It's a blind loyalty to one person who, by the way, remains free to this day."
In arguing for Chutkan's recusal, Trump's attorneys said that "the public meaning of this statement is inescapable -- President Trump is free, but should not be. As an apparent prejudgment of guilty, these comments are disqualifying standing alone."
In another example, Trump's attorneys cited a December 2021 hearing in which Chutkan, addressing a convicted rioter, said that "the people who exhorted you and encouraged you and rallied you to go and take action and to fight have not been charged."
"Public statements of this sort create a perception of prejudgment incompatible with our justice system," Trump's attorneys argued in their bid to have Chutkan disqualified.
In her ruling Wednesday, Chutkan also disputed that her statements were based on facts she observed through news coverage, rather than those presented to her through the defendants themselves in their arguments asking for leniency.
Trump haspleaded not guiltyto charges of undertaking a "criminal scheme" to overturn the results of the 2020 election by enlisting a slate of so-called "fake electors," using the Justice Department to conduct "sham election crime investigations," trying to enlist the vice president to "alter the election results," and promoting false claims of a stolen election as the Jan. 6 riot raged -- all in an effort to subvert democracy and remain in power.
Chutkan has set a start date of March 4, 2024, for the trial.
