Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) is introducing a resolution Friday to censure the judge overseeing special counsel Jack Smith’s case against former President Trump related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
In a statement obtained by The Hill, Gaetz’s office said he is introducing the resolution against U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan “for showing open bias and partisanship in her official duties on the bench.” The statement also features a quote by Gaetz, a Republican known for his strong pro-Trump stances, in which he says he is concerned about Chutkan’s “blatant political bias from the bench.”
“Judge Tanya Chutkan’s extreme sentencing of January 6th defendants, while openly supporting the violent Black Lives Matter riots of 2020, showcases a complete disregard for her duty of impartiality and the rule of law,” Gaetz said in the quote. “Justice may be blind, but the American people are not – we see Judge Chutkan for her actions, and we rebuke them in the greatest possible sense,”
Chutkan has tried to emphasize the nonimportance of politics to her decisions in the case. At a hearing over a protective order last week, she said she will not consider how her decisions affect political campaigns “on either side.”
“The existence of a political campaign is not going to have any bearing on my decision. I intend to keep politics out of this,” Chutkan said at the hearing.
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