Judge Chutkin's Role in the January 6th Case

Judge Tretkin was nominated to the DC District Court in 2014 by President Barack Obama. She has presided over about two dozen of the January 6th defendants' cases. In 2021, during the Congressional Investigation into January 6th, Trump sued to try and block Congressional investigators from accessing some of his records from his time in the White House. Judge Chutkin ruled against Trump; she wrote in her ruling, which you might remember, quote, presidents are not kings.