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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Oct 20, 2021, 01:26 PM Oct 2021

Judge hearing Trump's lawsuit to block January 6 subpoenas once called Capitol rioters a 'violent

mob' trying to overthrow the government



A federal judge assigned to former President Donald Trump's lawsuit filed to stop the release of records to the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot has previously criticized the insurrection and handed out harsh sentences to defendants.

Trump on Monday filed a lawsuit in Washington, DC, citing executive privilege as a reason that Trump-era White House documents relating to the attack should not be released to the bipartisan congressional committee investigating it.

US District Judge Tanya Chutkan was on Tuesday randomly assigned to hear the case, Reuters reported.




In a separate court case earlier this month, Chutkan described the Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol in January as a "violent mob seeking to overthrow the lawfully elected government." She added that the crowd posed a "very real danger" to democracy, CNN reported.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-hearing-trumps-lawsuit-block-125532773.html
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