Lawyers for former President Trump demanded the federal judge’s recusal on Monday

preside over eavesdropping

his 2020 election subversion case, in which she undermined her previous comments on the January 6 insurrection

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no public confidence in its neutrality.

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unusual for a defendant to win a request for recusal,

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after a trial date has been set.

In a motion filed Monday,

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argued that U.S. District Judge Tanya

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Chutkan’s previous “negative” comments in other matters regarding the January 6, 2021

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An attack on the US Capitol inevitably “tarnishes” the case.

“While Judge Chutkan may sincerely intend to give President Trump a fair trial and may believe she can do so, her public statements inevitably taint these proceedings regardless of the outcome,” the filing said.

Special counsel Jack Smith has charged Trump with four crimes related to plots to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election and keep him in power. T

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has pleaded not guilty. The trial will begin on March 4, 2023.

The motion cites two statements Chutkan made from the bench during the Jan. 6 sentencing of two previous defendants that appear to refer to Trump but do not name him. The motion describes the

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comments

as a ‘prejudice’ about Trump’s guilt.

In one, from the October 2022 case of Christine Priola of Ohio, Chutkan

reprimanded

the suspect and others

6 January

rioters for offering “blind loyalty to one person who, by the way, remains free to this day.”

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made at the sentencing of Florida’s Robert Palmer in December 2021, saying he “made a very good point” that the people who encouraged rioters to go to the Capitol

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Not charged. According to the transcript

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also noted that it was not her role to decide who gets charged.