Saturday, August 12, 2023

If this is true...Judge Tanya Chutkan should never have behaved like this:

Hugo Lowell of the Guardian claimed lawyers for Donald Trump got off to a rough start with Judge Tanya Chutkan during a hearing Friday afternoon.

According to the reporter who was in Chutkan's courtroom on Friday...the judge at one point put her face in her hands as accusations were made against the Joe Biden administration for "coming after" the ex-president.

... Lowell stated Chutkan was clearly unhappy with the former president's lawyers harping on the fact that the trial would impact their client's third presidential campaign.

"...I think she kind of grew exasperated by all the discussions about politics, at one point she had her face in her hands and rolled her eyes when there was another discussion about the Biden Administration coming after Trump."

I used to tell colleagues the kind of judge I wanted: "Just rule! For me I hope, against me if you must--I'm a big boy, I'm not going to whine!--but don't personalize it it. Just rule." Adverse rulings are almost never grounds for recusing a judge. But if this is true, this extracurricular signaling is.