The judge set to oversee former President Trump’s latest criminal case is known for her sentencing of January 6 rioters and worked at a law firm associated with Hunter Biden.
DC federal Judge Tanya Chutkan, who was picked to oversee Trump’s criminal case in the capital was declared ‘the toughest punisher’ of rioters charged with offenses relating to the 2021 riot.
In a profile by the Associated Press, written last year, they said: ‘Chutkan has handed out tougher sentences than the [Justice Department] was seeking in seven cases, matched its requests in four others and sent all 11 riot defendants who have come before her behind bars.’
The 61-year-old was nominated by former President Barack Obama, was born in Jamaica and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s law school.
Chutkan had worked at the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner from 2002 until she was confirmed a federal judge in 2014.
Boies Schiller has strong connections to the Democratic Party and then-second son Hunter Biden — whose dad President Biden is likely to face Trump in the 2024 election — was of counsel at the firm from 2009 to 2014,
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