The judge’s first trial since Donald Trump’s indictment offers insight into how she’ll handle the former president’s case.
longshot bid to disqualify her from the case
And like most of her colleagues on the federal bench in Washington, Chutkan has considered and rejected attempts by Jan. 6 defendants to claim that they believed Trump gave them permission to go inside the Capitol on Jan. 6. Despite Trump’s incendiary rhetoric, they’ve noted, Trump’s words did not authorize anyone to break the law and enter the restricted Capitol grounds.
Ultimately, however, she permitted Vo’s attorneys to mention Trump’s directive to supporters because of how it might have influenced Vo’s thinking that day. In addition, she said she was confident every member of the jury had probably seen portions of the speech. Her comments mirror longstanding legal precedents about picking a jury. Courts have long noted that political opinions or gut feelings about a case are not automatically disqualifying, so long as jurors convince the judge and attorneys that they will put those opinions aside and assess the case based only on the evidence presented in court.
On Friday morning, Chutkan revealed that Vo’s pretrial services officer had received an alert from a “concerned citizen” that Vo was violating his conditions by attending three nightly vigils outside the Washington jail with supporters of incarcerated Jan. 6 defendants. Vo’s conditions forbade him from coming to Washington for anything but meetings with his attorneys and court proceedings.
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