UnionLeader Article RatingSpecial counsel fights Trump bid to oust Judge Chutkan from Jan. 6 case
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| "New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan last month denied Trump's motion, which was based on the judge's past political donations and his daughter's work for anti-Trump organizations." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan last month denied Trump's motion, which was based on the judge's past political donations and his daughter's work for anti-Trump organizations." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Lauro quoted Chutkan from a December 2021 sentencing hearing, before Trump was under active investigation, telling a rioter, The people who may be the people who plaed this and funded it and encouraged it haven't been charged." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Trump has made similar recusal requests before, including in New York, where he is scheduled for trial in March for allegedly falsifying business records in coection to hush money payments during the 2016 presidential campaign." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Even if Chutkan may genuinely believe that she can give Trump a fair trial, the public will reasonably and understandably question whether Judge Chutkan arrived at all of her decisions in this matter impartially, Trump attorney John F. Lauro wrote in the recusal motion." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Even if Chutkan may genuinely believe that she can give Trump a fair trial, the public will reasonably and understandably question whether Judge Chutkan arrived at all of her decisions in this matter impartially, Trump attorney John F. Lauro wrote in the recusal motion." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "If Chutkan refuses the request, Trump's defense lawyers may ask the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to disqualify her.Chutkan, 61, was appointed in 2014 by Barack Obama and is one of 13 active judges in the federal trial court in Washington." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "If Chutkan refuses the request, Trump's defense lawyers may ask the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to disqualify her.Chutkan, 61, was appointed in 2014 by Barack Obama and is one of 13 active judges in the federal trial court in Washington." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "She did not name Trump." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "The defendant has failed to identify anything approaching the clear and convincing evidence necessary to overcome the presumption of impartiality, prosecutors said in the filing, accusing Trump of relying on suggestion and iuendo to insinuate something sinister in the Court simply doing its job by addressing sentencing arguments." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Before the special counsel investigation began, while sentencing people who took part in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, Chutkan twice noted that Trump and other leaders claiming the election was stolen had not been charged with crimes." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Trump's defense on Monday asked for Chutkan's recusal, saying the veteran jurist appeared to have prejudged the former president's guilt." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Many judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, have made comments similar to Chutkan's, as rioters have frequently argued that they were misled by Trump." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Chutkan gave Trump's defense until Sunday to make any reply." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Prosecutors working with special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday urged U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan to refuse a request by Donald Trump's attorneys that she disqualify herself from his federal election obstruction case, saying Trump's team had failed to supply evidence that she was biased against him." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "Prosecutors working with special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday urged U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan to refuse a request by Donald Trump's attorneys that she disqualify herself from his federal election obstruction case, saying Trump's team had failed to supply evidence that she was biased against him." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "The defense motion came after Chutkan set a March 4 trial date for Trump, who has pleaded not guilty to a four-count indictment accusing him of illegally plotting to overturn Joe Biden's 2020 election victory." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "The defense motion came after Chutkan set a March 4 trial date for Trump, who has pleaded not guilty to a four-count indictment accusing him of illegally plotting to overturn Joe Biden's 2020 election victory." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
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50% : New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan last month denied Trump's motion, which was based on the judge's past political donations and his daughter's work for anti-Trump organizations.*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.