According to Julie Kelly, who has covered the trials of defendants accused of participating in the January 6, 2021, riots in her Substack publication, “Declassified with Julie Kelly”, On Monday U.S. Judge Tanya S. Chutkan reportedly compared the January 6 Capitol riot to the 9/11 attacks and the Boston Marathon bombing, when she questioned the need for a long delay before former President Donald Trump’s trial in Washington, D.C..
Chutkan reportedly made her remarks in deciding to set the trial date at March 4, 2024, one day before Super Tuesday, the most important day of the 2024 presidential election, in which Trump is the leading Republican candidate. If she was trying to make a point, she has certainly done so. Apparently, true justice doesn’t require time to review the enormous documentation that is a part of these charges.
According to the proceeding transcript, obtained by Kelly, in dismissing the request of Trump’s attorneys for a later trial date that would push the case past the 2024 election and allow them more time to review millions of documents of possible evidence, Chutkan reportedly said-
“The trial will start three years, one month, and 27 days after the events of January 6, 2021”
-U.S. Judge Tanya S. Chutkan
The charges that Trump faces include, conspiring unlawfully to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, through challenges and claims of election fraud, that Special Counsel Jack Smith has linked to the January 6 riot. Not without her political bias, Chutkan, who was appointed by President Barack Obama and donated to his presidential campaigns, has also suggested, in a previous case, that Trump ought to be in prison.
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
-Benjamin Franklin