Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., is introducing a resolution to censure and investigate D.C. District Judge Tanya Chutkan over alleged political bias.
"People gathered all over the country last year to protest the violent murder by the police of an unarmed man ... to compare the actions of people protesting, mostly peacefully, for civil rights to those of a violent mob seeking to overthrow the lawfully elected government is a false equivalency and ignores a very real danger that the Jan. 6 riot posed to the foundation of our democracy," Gaetz cited Chutkan as saying.
Gaetz also said the man she was sentencing at the time, Matthew Mazzocco,"was a nonviolent offender who spent merely 12 minutes on Capitol grounds and who urged others to remain peaceful on January 6, 2021," according to the resolution text. Chutkan had sentenced Mazzocco to 45 days in jail over the misdemeanor charge.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
Trump and his allies in Congress and elsewhere have accused Chutkan of behaving politically as the former president continues to deny guilt in all of the four criminal indictments against him. They have lodged similar accusations against Special Counsel Jack Smith and Biden administration officials in the Justice Department.recently for threatening to kill Chutkan if Trump was not reelected in 2024, according to multiple reports.
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