Former President Donald Trump has asked Judge Tanya Chutkan to recuse herself from the 2020 election subversion case in which he is charged. Jack Smith, as special counsel, has initiated this proceeding.

In a recent court filing on Monday, Trump cited Chutkan’s statements in cases involving individuals implicated in the disturbances at the US Capitol on January 6. There is a high probability that rational members of society may “believe she has prejudged both the pertinent facts in this case and President Trump’s alleged guilt,” he posited.

Judge Chutkan asserts that the constitutional guarantee of free speech, as it pertains to former President Trump in the case of January 6, is not absolute.

“In a highly charged political season, naturally all Americans, and in fact, the entire world, are observing these proceedings closely,” he declared. “Only if this trial is administered by a judge who appears entirely impartial could the public ever accept the outcome as justice.”

Chutkan has requested the perspective of the Justice Department’s prosecutors, which is anticipated to be submitted by Thursday. Consequently, Trump will have the opportunity to respond to the aforementioned reasons by submitting a response by Sunday.

Chutkan, who was appointed by Barack Obama and then randomly assigned to Trump’s case, has consistently expressed her opinions regarding the Capitol disturbance. She has described the violence as an assault on the democratic principles of the United States and expressed concern over the possibility of future political violence. The judge has consistently imposed harsher prison terms on convicted rioters than the prosecutors’ recommendations.

Chutkan has also supervised civil litigation pertinent to the events of January 6, 2021, which included a firm denial of former President Trump’s efforts to stop the House select committee’s viewing of over 700 pages of documents during his tenure .

In the aforementioned judgment, Chutkan stated that “Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.”

It is probable that Trump’s petition for Chutkan to recuse herself from presiding over his criminal case will face significant challenges, given that the request was submitted directly to Chutkan.

The initial instance emphasized by the Trump team is derived from a sentencing proceeding in October 2022, during which Chutkan asserted that “the people who mobbed that Capitol were there in fealty, in loyalty, to one man – not to the Constitution. … It’s a blind loyalty to one person who, by the way, remains free to this day.”

Clearly, Chutkan intends to imprison Trump.

During a sentencing hearing in December 2021, Chutkan informed another defendant involved in the Capitol riot “the people who exhorted you and encouraged you and rallied you to go and take action and to fight have not been charged.”

The Democrat judge continued, “The issue of who has or has not been charged is not before me. I don’t have any influence on that. I have my opinions, but they are not relevant.”

Trump has entered a not-guilty plea in response to all charges leveled against him.

President Trump has previously employed this strategy.

Trump alleged a RICO conspiracy in relation to the 2016 election in a complex and speculative civil lawsuit he filed in Florida against former Justice Department officials, Hillary Clinton, and other prominent Democrats. Trump requested the removal of the judge presiding over the case because the judge was appointed by former president Bill Clinton. Last year, US District Judge Donald Middlebrooks initially denied the motion, but President Trump has since reinstated it.

Trump has also previously attempted to have the New York judge overseeing the criminal case involving the hush money transactions disqualified.

Trump contended that Judge Juan Merchan ought to disqualify himself on account of his daughter’s involvement in political advising, including her engagement with the Biden campaign in 2020 and her subsequent involvement with the campaign of now-Vice President Kamala Harris. Merchan turned down the request in August.

President Donald Trump stated on Wednesday that he intends to remain a candidate in the 2024 election despite the four indictments against him, signifying his unwillingness to withdraw from the race.

Former President Trump is presently facing indictments from Special Counsel Jack Smith, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. A number of Republicans view these legal proceedings as politically motivated attacks against the former president.

During an interview with radio presenter Hugh Hewitt, the president was asked if he would be prepared to temporarily suspend his reelection campaign if all three prosecutors offered to drop the charges against him.

Hewitt inquired of the former president: “If Jack Smith and Fani Willis and Alvin Bragg all get together and they come see you at Bedminster or Mar-A-Lago and they say to you, ‘We will drop everything, it will all go away if you withdraw from the race and politics.’ Will you take that deal?”

Trump responded definitely, saying, “I have no interest. You know me well enough. No interest. Absolutely no interest. I think they’d make that deal right now. That’s what it’s all about — this is interfering with an election. And all those fools that write, that ‘oh, they really want Trump to win,’ they changed it, actually. So now, they say they did it in order to keep me strong. They thought this was going to take me down, this was not going to keep me strong.”