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Former President Donald Trump filed a motion Monday seeking to disqualify Judge Tanya Chutkan from the criminal case in which he is accused of trying to overturn the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
Mr. Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, said last month that he planned to seek the replacement of Judge Chutkan and the trial to be held elsewhere.
Former President Trump argued in the motion that Judge Chutkan's previous statements, which appear to refer to his role in influencing the Jan. 6, 2021 riots at the Capitol building by his supporters, raise questions about her impartiality in this case. matter.
The court filing points to a remark by Judge Chutkan during a 2022 hearing for a defendant in connection with the Capitol riots, in which she suggested the protester was motivated by "blind loyalty to a person who, by the way , remains free even to this day", said the judge.
Mr. Trump's lawyers argued that the comment showed the judge's belief that Mr. Trump "should be prosecuted and imprisoned."
Special Prosecutor Jack Smith has filed charges against former President Donald Trump for trying to overturn the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, which resulted in his supporters violently protesting at the Capitol.
It is one of four criminal charges facing Mr. Trump as he runs for the Republican nomination in 2024. He has said he is innocent of all charges.
Mr. Trump has frequently criticized Judge Chutkan since she was appointed to preside over the case in Washington federal court.
Judge Chutkan, appointed by former President Barack Obama, rejected Mr Trump's request in 2021 in a civil case he brought to try to protect his White House records from a House committee investigating riots in the Capitol.
In the justification of her decision, Judge Chutkan wrote, among other things: "Presidents are not kings and the Plaintiff is not the President"./ VOA
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