WASHINGTON: Former US President Donald Trump has filed a motion through his lawyers maintaining that District Judge Tanya Chutkan should not hear the case because of her clear bias towards the 77-year-old Republican forerunner, Western media reported on Monday.
Judge Chutkan will preside over the case pertaining to Donald Trump’s involvement in subverting 2020 election results and the Capitol Hill riots on January 6, 2021.
Donald Trump in his plea said that US District Judge Chutkan should step aside because of past statements about him that show bias.
He said Judge Chutkan had proposed that President Trump should be prosecuted and jailed. “Such statements, made before this case began and without due process, are inherently disqualifying.”
Such motion unlikely to succeed
According to the legal experts on the legal matters, such a motion was unlikely to succeed because it is Chutkan herself to decide on the matter.
The judge last month set March 4, 2024, for the trial date against Trump on charges of conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
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Trump, who is also contesting once again for the White House in 2024 against Joe Biden, pleaded not guilty to the charges in a court appearance in Washington last month.
The former president in a statement on his Truth Social platform has complained about the judge, calling her “highly partisan” and “very biased and unfair”.
Trump has termed all the investigations against him as part of a coordinated attempt by Democrats to target his candidacy. Trump, in a post on social media, had described the investigations against him as a “witch hunt.”
