The judge in Donald Trump's federal election meddling case has said she will not recuse herself, despite the ex-president's requests she step aside.

His legal team argued some of her past comments create a perception of bias against the former president.

She has now ruled his lawyers failed to present evidence of those claims.

Judge Tanya Chutkan is overseeing the federal case in which Mr Trump is accused of a conspiracy to overturn his 2020 election loss.

Mr Trump has pleaded not guilty to the charges in the case, which is being brought by special counsel Jack Smith.

Last month's filing by Mr Trump's lawyers did not expressly call the judge prejudiced against him, but says certain statements she has made in her court "create a perception of pre-judgement incompatible with our justice system".

 

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In her ruling on Wednesday, Judge Chutkan said the comments cited by his legal team "certainly do not manifest a deep-seated prejudice that would make fair judgement impossible".

"It bears noting that the court has never taken the position the defence ascribes to it: that former 'President Trump should be prosecuted and imprisoned,'" Judge Chutkan wrote.

"And the defence does not cite any instance of the court ever uttering those words or anything similar."

Under US federal law, any judge of the United States must voluntarily recuse themselves in any proceeding in which their impartiality might reasonably be questioned.

 

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Good another good day for American jurisprudence let’s get this man on trial and put away enough allready let’s make politics boring again!!

Trump can't win any motion. It has to be the deep state controllers.

Tired of winning yet?

I don't think Trump really cares.

 

Going out on a limb here, (on the perhaps not entirely rational assumption that he is not a raving narcissistic loony) I think that he expects to win the election next year.

Quite why he believes that I don't understand, but he does. Once sworn in he will set about what he sees as the priority of his second term, remaking the executive branch of government in his image, extracting revenge and pardoning himself and his cronies. He will drive a coach and horses through any and all checks and balances, and rely on control of the House, Senate and the Supreme Court to allow him to get his way.

 

Judge Chutkan along with anyone else who has crossed him will be out on her ear.

 

Now of course all this is contingent upon Trump winning the White House and both houses of Congress. If he does, it will be the end of democracy in America, and will have massive repercussions across the globe. 4 years of this malignant clown show in charge will cost the USA its political, economic and moral lead on the world stage, and leave it as an inchoate state, residually wealthy perhaps but with failing governance, judicial, healthcare and a crumbling infrastructure.

 

The stakes are quite high aren't they?

What else would she say? If she agreed, it would not look good on her CV.

I'm sure that even in the current US political environment biased judges are not in favour.

20 minutes ago, herfiehandbag said:

Now of course all this is contingent upon Trump winning the White House and both houses of Congress. If he does, it will be the end of democracy in America, and will have massive repercussions across the globe. 4 years of this malignant clown show in charge will cost the USA its political, economic and moral lead on the world stage, and leave it as an inchoate state, residually wealthy perhaps but with failing governance, judicial, healthcare and a crumbling infrastructure.

"The end of democracy in America"- are you taking the mickey?

If democracy is so fragile in the US, it's unlikely to survive whoever is in the big chair.

Also, there is such a thing as a constitution to overcome and that would not be easy, would it?

 

4 years of this malignant clown show in charge will cost the USA its political, economic and moral lead on the world stage, and leave it as an inchoate state,

I have to agree on that statement, but not regarding Trump, rather the present bumbling buffoon ( and the current unpopular VP ) in the Oval Office.

30 minutes ago, herfiehandbag said:

 

The stakes are quite high aren't they?

Not to worry. Trump will not again be President. I read it on here:

 

 

The rubbish that Trump gets away with makes America look silly!

4 hours ago, Social Media said:

"It bears noting that the court has never taken the position the defence ascribes to it: that former 'President Trump should be prosecuted and imprisoned,'" Judge Chutkan wrote.

"And the defence does not cite any instance of the court ever uttering those words or anything similar."

It takes guts to challenge a judge by putting words into her mouth.  And a lot of stupidity.

 

47 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

What else would she say? If she agreed, it would not look good on her CV.

I'm sure that even in the current US political environment biased judges are not in favour.

Grounds for appeal. Her comments were clearly biased.