What to know about Tanya Chutkan, the judge randomly assigned to Trump's Jan. 6 case

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U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan will preside over Trump's trial in the case stemming from his efforts to remain in power after losing the 2020 election.

landed on her docket, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan told an attorney in an unrelated matter that she hadn't slept since she received the assignment. "I'll try," the judge responded in open court, later quipping that she is trying to keep her calendar open"in case I can get out of town, which is increasingly looking like a good idea."

"They were mad that their guy lost," she said in another."The people who mobbed that Capitol were there in fealty and loyalty to one man. Not the Constitution." The clerk's office at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is home to the"wheel" for federal cases in Washington, a computerized random selection process that assigns new cases to any of the 22 federal district judges who preside in Washington.

 

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